(Sports & Games : History of "Base-ball", &c) 2 Vols. [Kidgell, John.] The Card. London: J. Newbery, 1755. First edition. 12mo, modern calf, red and green morocco labels. With 2 plates (including hand colored frontispiece). Lightly toned, scattered light foxing and spotting, worming at heads of vol. 1 p. 247 through last leaf - minor losses to printing, 1 index leaf in vol. 2 re-hinged.
The term "Base-Ball" in this work on p. 9 of vol. 1, regarded as the earliest use of the term; see David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It.