DAGLEY, (Richard).

DEATH'S DOINGS; CONSISTING OF NUMEROUS ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS, IN VERSE AND PROSE, THE FRIENDLY CONTRIBUTIONS OF VARIOUS WRITERS; PRINCIPALLY INTENDED AS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIRTY COPPER-PLATES, DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY R. DAGLEY. SECOND EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.
London, 1827.
Two volumes. 8vo.xvi+(2)+232pp. [numbered 1-224, 72 bis and 7 unnumbered pages]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 15 engraved plates; (4)+(240)pp. [misnumbered 225-256, 259-466]. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 15 engraved plates. Lower edges of both volumes stained throughout. Half morocco, top edges gilt.
Enlarged second edition, with considerable additional cricket material. In addition to The Game of life; or, Death among the Cricketers, (pages 69-72), a poem by S. Maunder, in which the poet draws an analogy between life and a game of cricket, this edition also contains eight pages of Verses in Praise of Cricket, by the Rev. R. Cotton, (pages 72 onwards), and Death and the Cricketer, by Bernard Batwell, (pages 73-84). For more information on Cotton's poem see The Cricketer, 1957, page 178. Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'Scarce.' Not recorded by Gaston, Bibliography of Cricket, 1895, or Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Very scarce...the 2nd edition is rarer than the 1st.' Padwick, 6970.
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