Cricket covered in the form of a mock-heroic poem

An auction of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks and Cricket Books at Knights Sporting Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Norwich on September 14-15 was led by a first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket.

Cricket. An heroic poem: illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus was penn…

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