LUCAS, (E.V.).

SONGS OF THE BAT.
London, privately printed for the Author, 1892.
Very small 8vo. 8pp. Original printed wrappers.
Cricket poems. Published by the author who had hoped that Albert Craig, the Surrey Poet, would sell it at the Oval. Craig however was not interested, as he was not involved in its publication. In his autobiography Reading, Writing and Remembering, published in 1932, Lucas recalls: 'Poets...don't sell the work of other poets. The result was that it was never sold at all and, as I was also the publisher, I still possess several hundred copies.' Some of these songs were later published in Willow and Leather. Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906, page 91, does not record the author. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Scarce and difficult to procure.' Padwick, 6581.
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