The Rambler's Magazine; or, The Annals of Gallantry, Glee, Pleasure and the Bon Ton London: for the authors, and sold by R. Randall, January-December 1786. Volume IV only, with supplement, 8vo. (8 x 4¾in; 205 x 120mm), double column with continuous pagination and signatures for the year, 30 engraved plates only including "The Ball lost in a Furze Bush", woodcut hieroglyphics (lacks [?]8 plates, also all text before p. 23 in the January issue and some other leaves, some leaves torn with loss and with crude laminated or adhesive tape repairs, particularly affecting the May issue, occasional cropping), mid-20th-century blue half morocco. Provenance : "'Exchanged' with John Arlott" (Eagar Catalogue note). At least three plates appear to have been published each month, and 2 in the annual supplement. This copy is very imperfect, lacking any plates for January, having only one plate in the May issue, and 2 in June and September. In addition to pp. 1-22 (January), text is lacking in the September to December issues and in the supplement. However, the July issue is complete and includes a letter to the editor (p. 273) headed, "The Cricket Ball lost in a Furze Bush" which is also the subject of the facing plate. The letter-writer signs himself "A Lover of the Wicket", and regrets the passing of the "more manly stile" of play when the wicket "consisted of only two prongs". An incident he describes during the grand match in White-conduit fields on 22 June clearly brought life to a dull game. This started with a ball being "sent with such force and fury" that it knocked over a lady, and was then declared '"a lost ball"' until recovered "from between the lady's legs" -- a cause of "much risbility" among the spectators who were more entertained by this "than ... all the performances of Lumpy, or of any of the two elevens". ESTC locates copies only at Harvard (Houghton Library) and the University of Illinois. Goldman p. 163: "very rare and crude"; not in Padwick.
The Rambler's Magazine; or, The Annals of Gallantry, Glee, Pleasure and the Bon Ton London: for the authors, and sold by R. Randall, January-December 1786. Volume IV only, with supplement, 8vo. (8 x 4¾in; 205 x 120mm), double column with continuous pagination and signatures for the year, 30 engraved plates only including "The Ball lost in a Furze Bush", woodcut hieroglyphics (lacks [?]8 plates, also all text before p. 23 in the January issue and some other leaves, some leaves torn with loss and with crude laminated or adhesive tape repairs, particularly affecting the May issue, occasional cropping), mid-20th-century blue half morocco. Provenance : "'Exchanged' with John Arlott" (Eagar Catalogue note). At least three plates appear to have been published each month, and 2 in the annual supplement. This copy is very imperfect, lacking any plates for January, having only one plate in the May issue, and 2 in June and September. In addition to pp. 1-22 (January), text is lacking in the September to December issues and in the supplement. However, the July issue is complete and includes a letter to the editor (p. 273) headed, "The Cricket Ball lost in a Furze Bush" which is also the subject of the facing plate. The letter-writer signs himself "A Lover of the Wicket", and regrets the passing of the "more manly stile" of play when the wicket "consisted of only two prongs". An incident he describes during the grand match in White-conduit fields on 22 June clearly brought life to a dull game. This started with a ball being "sent with such force and fury" that it knocked over a lady, and was then declared '"a lost ball"' until recovered "from between the lady's legs" -- a cause of "much risbility" among the spectators who were more entertained by this "than ... all the performances of Lumpy, or of any of the two elevens". ESTC locates copies only at Harvard (Houghton Library) and the University of Illinois. Goldman p. 163: "very rare and crude"; not in Padwick.
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