Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Carmina Familiae [Family Songs]’. Privately published at 11 Southwick Crescent, Hyde Park, London 1898. 36pp. Contents page lists twenty poems contributed by six members of the same (unknown) family with their initial only given. p21 features ‘The Song of the Demon Bowler’ comprising thirteen stanzas each of six lines about a bowler and the physical harm he causes his opponents. Inscription in ink to front endpaper, ‘To Mr & Mrs Richards from the Authors Nov 15/[19]07’. Each page is printed on gilt edged card, bound in full red leather with later replacement spine. Bookplate to inside front cover of J.W. Goldman. Padwick 6386-2. Some rubbing to board extremities, otherwise internally in very good condition. Scarce.