John Kidgell

First and only edition of Kidgell's The Card, containing the earliest mention of baseball.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• John Kidgell (English).
• London: For the Maker & sold by J. Newberry, 1755.
• Includes a hand-colored engraved frontis as issued, trompe l'oeil plate at page 12. 
• Bound in contemporary full-speckled calf over cords, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels.

A scarce and little-known novel accepted to contain the earliest known surviving mention of baseball 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.