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

‘Rural Sports: or Amusements for Infant Minds’. Fourth edition ‘with improvements’, published by J.T. Ward And Co’s Juvenile Library, London 1807. Small book with original decorative paper wrappers. Illustrated with ‘Eleven Beautiful Engravings’, the title page features a woodcut image of two players with curved bats. The book describes rural life in the village of Crosby near Liverpool. Preserved in a modern leather and marbled board clamshell case. Padwick 7135-1. Some soiling and wear to the original wrappers, the title page partially detached, otherwise in good condition. Rare.