[Kidgell (John)] The Card, first edition, vol.1 with hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and engraved plate, titles with "Card" in decorative woodcut lettering, a little browned, plates lightly offset, marginal browning from paste-action at beginning and ends including title of vol.2, small hole to corner of H12 in vol.2 with loss of page number, contemporary calf, red labels, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, spine ends repaired, 12mo, Printed for the Maker, and sold by J.Newbery, 1755.

⁂ Scarce novel reputed to contain the earliest known surviving mention of base-ball as we know it: "...the younger Part of the Family...retired to an interrupted Party at Base-Ball, (an infant Game, which as it advances in its Teens, improved into Fives, and in its State of Manhood, is called Tennis.)" Vol.1 Chap.2 p.9.