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WILLIAM LAMBERT
The Cricketers' Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. [and 3 others], Derby: Mozley, [1817?]. 12mo., folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, full-page diagram, final advertisement leaf (frontispiece repaired on verso, with short tears along fold lines and clean tear at inner margin, light creasemark at lower margins of text, occasional browning and spotting), contemporary half roan (rubbed, spine stained and chipped at head). Provenance: Bayley (early pencil signature on F2r; team list compiled in pencil on rear endpaper) -- Kenneth J. Cole (inscription on front pastedown dated December, 1958).
Third edition. On paper watermarked 1811. The title refers to "A Plan of a New Single Wicket Game" and is embellished for the first time by a cricketing vignette. Allen 17; Padwick 383.
The Cricketers' Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. [and 3 others], Derby: Mozley, [1817?]. 12mo., folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, full-page diagram, final advertisement leaf (frontispiece repaired on verso, with short tears along fold lines and clean tear at inner margin, light creasemark at lower margins of text, occasional browning and spotting), contemporary half roan (rubbed, spine stained and chipped at head). Provenance: Bayley (early pencil signature on F2r; team list compiled in pencil on rear endpaper) -- Kenneth J. Cole (inscription on front pastedown dated December, 1958).
Third edition. On paper watermarked 1811. The title refers to "A Plan of a New Single Wicket Game" and is embellished for the first time by a cricketing vignette. Allen 17; Padwick 383.
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