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HENRY BENTLEY
A Correct Acccount of All the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive. - An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches played in the Year 1823
London: T. Traveller, 1823. 2 volumes in one, 8vo., collation: [*4] *F-*Z4 A-I4 L3 K-Z4 2A-2D4; a4-b6 (title with two short tears at upper margin and old adhesive tape repairs on verso, occasional areas of spotting, some outer margins cropped, H4 with repair to lower blank area, L3bis with contemporary news cutting tipped onto recto, b5r of supplement with stain at lower margin). Recent full blue morocco gilt, red speckled edges. Provenance: John Murray [?]Truill (signature at head of title).
THE FIRST BOOK OF SCORES TO FOLLOW BRITCHER, WITH THE RARE FIRST SUPPLEMENT BOUND IN. Although now chiefly remembered for his cricket Accounts, Bentley was a celebrated player and later a respected umpire, living "close to Lord's at 12 Grove St., Lisson Grove, where he could often be heard practising on the flute, his principal hobby". Allen p. 23 and no. 20; Padwick 1221.
A Correct Acccount of All the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive. - An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches played in the Year 1823
London: T. Traveller, 1823. 2 volumes in one, 8vo., collation: [*
THE FIRST BOOK OF SCORES TO FOLLOW BRITCHER, WITH THE RARE FIRST SUPPLEMENT BOUND IN. Although now chiefly remembered for his cricket Accounts, Bentley was a celebrated player and later a respected umpire, living "close to Lord's at 12 Grove St., Lisson Grove, where he could often be heard practising on the flute, his principal hobby". Allen p. 23 and no. 20; Padwick 1221.
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