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Felix on the Bat: being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat
London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to. (9¾ x 7¾in.; 25 x 20cm), hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates, printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes (some spotting of plates and waterstaining at upper margin or upper right hand corners, occasional soiling of text), original blind-stamped green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges, binder's ticket preserved at rear (recased, with some restoration to spine). Provenance: Walter Youngman, Lowestoft, 1845 (first owner's inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by the batsman, amateur artist, and schoolteacher known as "Felix". The plates in each edition differ in terms of the players' clothing, setting and colours, and are printed by different firms. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix, in common with the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). Allen 50; Goldman p. 88: "a necessity in every cricket collection"; Taylor p. 44; Padwick 397.
Felix on the Bat: being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat
London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to. (9¾ x 7¾in.; 25 x 20cm), hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates, printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes (some spotting of plates and waterstaining at upper margin or upper right hand corners, occasional soiling of text), original blind-stamped green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges, binder's ticket preserved at rear (recased, with some restoration to spine). Provenance: Walter Youngman, Lowestoft, 1845 (first owner's inscription on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by the batsman, amateur artist, and schoolteacher known as "Felix". The plates in each edition differ in terms of the players' clothing, setting and colours, and are printed by different firms. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix, in common with the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). Allen 50; Goldman p. 88: "a necessity in every cricket collection"; Taylor p. 44; Padwick 397.
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