This is one of a series of little books (130 X 90) produced by Northamptonshire Headmaster,Publisher,Writer. and Eccentric, J.L.Carr. In many cases the titles are nearly as long as the books and they are all just wonderful !
In this one he lists for example - ALBERT KNIGHT a Leicestershire County Cricket Club player who customerily knelt in prayer at the crease before receiving his first ball.JOHN LYDGATE a Bury St.Edmunds monk who wrote the language's longest wearisom poem,The Fall of Princes. (31,564 lines) and LOT WILKINS a Worcestershire sidesman forbidden by canon law to marry his deceased wife's sister,arranged with a solicitor to take her on lease.
They were published from his back bedroom in Kettering,under the lovely name of the 'The Quince Tree Press' ( )