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FREDERICK LILLYWHITE
The Guide to Cricketers
London: F. Lillywhite, 1861-65. 7 vols. in 6, 8vo., wood-engraved portrait of F.W. Lillywhite in 21st edition, earlier editions in original wrappers (some wear to spines, 16th ed. "spring" with block broken and leaves detached), 20th and 21st edition bound together in late 19th-century green half calf, original wrappers bound in (endpapers renewed, one wrapper soiled and frayed). Provenance: R.N. Jones (signature in 16th ed.) -- Wheeler and Day, Oxford (bookseller's stamp on title to 19th ed.) -- Robert Stratten Holmes (signature on title to 21st ed. dated Liverpool, 30.6.[18]86) -- [Thomas Padwick] and Charles Pratt Green (C.P. Green's bookplate in calf-bound vol).
Fourteenth edition "Autumn" (Smith 14); sixteenth edition "Winter" (Smith 16); sixteenth edition "Spring" (Smith 17); eighteenth edition "Spring" (Smith 19); nineteenth edition (Smith 20); twentieth edition (Smith 21); and twenty-first edition "Autumn" (Smith 22). Allen 55; Padwick 1086. (6)
The Guide to Cricketers
London: F. Lillywhite, 1861-65. 7 vols. in 6, 8vo., wood-engraved portrait of F.W. Lillywhite in 21st edition, earlier editions in original wrappers (some wear to spines, 16th ed. "spring" with block broken and leaves detached), 20th and 21st edition bound together in late 19th-century green half calf, original wrappers bound in (endpapers renewed, one wrapper soiled and frayed). Provenance: R.N. Jones (signature in 16th ed.) -- Wheeler and Day, Oxford (bookseller's stamp on title to 19th ed.) -- Robert Stratten Holmes (signature on title to 21st ed. dated Liverpool, 30.6.[18]86) -- [Thomas Padwick] and Charles Pratt Green (C.P. Green's bookplate in calf-bound vol).
Fourteenth edition "Autumn" (Smith 14); sixteenth edition "Winter" (Smith 16); sixteenth edition "Spring" (Smith 17); eighteenth edition "Spring" (Smith 19); nineteenth edition (Smith 20); twentieth edition (Smith 21); and twenty-first edition "Autumn" (Smith 22). Allen 55; Padwick 1086. (6)
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