[Victorian cricket ephemera; The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Brotherhood Cricket Club.] Card printed by Cheney & Sons, carrying the 'Rules' and 'Subscription Receipt' for 'Banbury P.S.A. Cricket Club. Season 1894.'

Printed on both sides of a piece of 9 x 12.5 cm card, folded once to make a 9 x 6.25 cm bifolium, with the outer covers individual pages and the central opening a double-page spread. 4pp., 32mo (9 x 6.5cm). With shiny pink outer covers and matte white internal opening. In very good condition, very lightly aged. Tastefully printed, with the front cover within a decorative border, headed 'BANBURY | P.S.A. Cricket Club. | Season 1894.' and giving the names of the club officials, including Rev. H. Cubbon, President; Mr. Frank Lovegrove, Captain. Printers' slug ('CHENEY, IMP.') outside the border at the foot of the page. Five 'RULES' on the back cover, beginning with: '1 - That this Club be called "THE PLEASANT SUNDAY AFTERNOON BROTHERHOOD CRICKET CLUB."' Across the internal opening is the 'Subscription Receipt' by Lydiatt ('one Season's Subscription, ending the Thirty-first day of August, 1894'), which has not been filled in. A scarce piece of Victorian cricket ephemera, from the archive of Cheney & Sons, 'General, Commercial & Artistic Printers, Banbury'. For more about the firm see 'John Cheney and his descendants, printers in Banbury since 1767' (1936) and the Victoria County History volume for the County of Oxford, Banbury Hundred.