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LOVE, James, pseudonym of James Dance (1721–1774). Cricket. An Heroic Poem. London: for the author, 1770.
4º (242 x 185mm). (Some light soiling.) Early 20th-century green buckram, backed in brown morocco, gilt title on spine, uncut. Provenance: W. Smith 1774 (signature at head of title).
THIRD SEPARATE EDITION. UNCUT COPY. The first edition is extremely rare, the second almost unknown, and even the present third edition is seldom met with. Horace Walpole’s copy has the imprint date altered to 1771 in manuscript. Little is known about Dance. He entered Merchant Taylors' School, London, in 1732 and on 1 March 1738 was admitted a member of St John's College, Oxford. Having left without graduating, he entered Lincoln's Inn on 28 November 1738, but may have spent much of 1739 as a strolling player. In August 1739 he married Elizabeth (d. 1783), the daughter of James Hooper, a customs officer. He continued to act and to write light comedies. His heroic poem ‘Cricket’ was written and published in the early 1740s, and is the first separately published account of the game. Padwick 6445.
4º (242 x 185mm). (Some light soiling.) Early 20th-century green buckram, backed in brown morocco, gilt title on spine, uncut. Provenance: W. Smith 1774 (signature at head of title).
THIRD SEPARATE EDITION. UNCUT COPY. The first edition is extremely rare, the second almost unknown, and even the present third edition is seldom met with. Horace Walpole’s copy has the imprint date altered to 1771 in manuscript. Little is known about Dance. He entered Merchant Taylors' School, London, in 1732 and on 1 March 1738 was admitted a member of St John's College, Oxford. Having left without graduating, he entered Lincoln's Inn on 28 November 1738, but may have spent much of 1739 as a strolling player. In August 1739 he married Elizabeth (d. 1783), the daughter of James Hooper, a customs officer. He continued to act and to write light comedies. His heroic poem ‘Cricket’ was written and published in the early 1740s, and is the first separately published account of the game. Padwick 6445.
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