MAP-MID1: First and only edition

Publisher: J.L. Carr, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering

Year: 1975

ISBN: 0900847506

Limitation: 775 sheets

Size: 632 x 352 mm

Paper: thin white card

Colophon: sun face

Signed: Yes, underneath limitation

Proofs where: Kettering Public Library (map)

Notes: This map is dedicated to Mr Frank Trumper of Harefield who, with his Yorkshire sheep-dog, Owd Wat, in 1827, beat Two Gentlemen of Middlesex.

The buildings in the map were drawn by Roger Hall, RIBA, during Architectural Heritage Year 1975.

In the narrow box on the left, Carr wrote this:

MIDDLESEX C.C. Infuriatingly [I admit it] to a Yorkshireman the County exists chiefly as a cricket club and so homage to: B.I.J. Bosanquet, the inventor of the googly; I.A.R. Peebles, for his initials; P.F. Warner, the parallel to our Lord Hawke; C.T. Studd because my father said he was better employed in the missionary field than on the cricket field; E. Hendren in respect of 119 centuries and 40,060 runs; J.T. Hearne for a mammoth 18,582 overs and an av. of 18; D. Compton, av. 57; W.J. Edrich, av. 55; J.W. Hearne 27,562 runs; Jim Smith for his sixes; G.O. Allen because he supported Jardine; Albert Trott because he sounds a Yorkshireman; And A.J. Webbe because a Finchley friend says he won't buy a map unless he is included.

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