Our National Game [wrapper title]

Lithographed throughout by F. Van Horn. 32pp., comprising 16 lithographed baseball-themed humorous cartoons with ads on verso, the ads printed in blue or green ink. 8vo. The plates comprise: [1] Base Bawler [a crying girl smashing a doll and drum] [2] Pitcher [a man being thrown out a window with a broken pitcher on the ground beneath him] [3] Batter [a chef with a large mixing bowl attempting to hit a flying bat with his spoon] [4] Catcher [an overweight police officer chasing a woman] [5] Out Field [two men climbing through a wooden fence being chased by a bull] [6] First Base [a man playing a cello] [7] Second Base [a second man playing a cello] [8] Third Base [a man playing a bass drum] [9] Home Run [a Civil War officer with sword running toward Washington] [10] Fly Catch [a young girl standing on a chair trying to catch a fly] [11] Out on a Fly [two men standing by a water pump, one with his arm on the other] [12] Short Stop [a man on the ground with his legs spread apart holding a broken rope] [13] Scorer [a man drinking at a bar with the bar tender chalking on the wall his drinks] [14] Matches between Clubs [two baseball bats leaning against an oversized box of matches] [15] Innings [man on ice skates falling through the ice on a lake] [16] Fowl Ball [a bird hatching from a rounded egg] We can find only a single example of this baseball-themed book of cartoons located at the American Antiquarian Society (with the upper wrapper trimmed and the wrapper and each plate mounted within a scrapbook, dated by AAS circa 1870 based on newspaper clippings within the scrapbook). Not in Grobani Publisher's green lithographed wrappers, upper wrapper nearly detached Lithographed throughout by F. Van Horn. 32pp., comprising 16 lithographed baseball-themed humorous cartoons with ads on verso, the ads printed in blue or green ink. 8vo.…