Details
Goodfellow & Hele's Cricketers' Almanack for 1878-79, Adelaide: Carey & Page, 1879, 8°, first edition, mounted photographic portrait of J. Hide, 22-page advertisements at end (page 53 shaved at outer margin, slightly affecting numerals on recto), contemporary red half calf by J. Speakman of Liverpool (extremities rubbed and chipped, cloth boards slightly discoloured), original wrappers bound in (small section torn from front wrapper). [Padwick 3368]
Provenance
"Robert Stratten Holmes, Liverpool 7. 10. 86," inscription on title. Highly regarded for his History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1833-1903 (1904), the Rev. R. S. Holmes was also a noted collector of cricket books. This copy was also in the library of a later cricket historian, H. S. Altham.