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WILLIAM LAMBERT
The Cricketers' Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and sold by J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. and Sherwood and Co., Harrild, Langley, and Derby: Mozley, [1817?]. 12mo. (6 x 3½in; 153 x 90mm), 62p. + advertisement leaf, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette (frontispiece linen-backed), brown half morocco by Riviere for A.l. Ford, original grey front wrapper with printed pink label preserved, top edge gilt (wrapper rehinged). Provenance: A.L. Ford (binding and bookplate) -- J.W. Goldman (bookplate).
Third edition, early issue, on paper watermarked 1813 and with one-page advertisement for Baxter's Farmer's Account Book on the unnumbered leaf at end. The title refers to "A Plan of a New Single Wicket Game" and is embellished for the first time by a woodcut vignette. FINE COPY WITH AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. Padwick 383.
The Cricketers' Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and sold by J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. and Sherwood and Co., Harrild, Langley, and Derby: Mozley, [1817?]. 12mo. (6 x 3½in; 153 x 90mm), 62p. + advertisement leaf, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette (frontispiece linen-backed), brown half morocco by Riviere for A.l. Ford, original grey front wrapper with printed pink label preserved, top edge gilt (wrapper rehinged). Provenance: A.L. Ford (binding and bookplate) -- J.W. Goldman (bookplate).
Third edition, early issue, on paper watermarked 1813 and with one-page advertisement for Baxter's Farmer's Account Book on the unnumbered leaf at end. The title refers to "A Plan of a New Single Wicket Game" and is embellished for the first time by a woodcut vignette. FINE COPY WITH AN IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. Padwick 383.
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