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GEORGE HOWE, publisher
The Australian Cricketers' Team for 1896
London: George Howe, [1896]. 8vo., 12 portraits (browned), green buckram, preserving original green printed wrappers (browned at edges, front wrapper chipped and with clean tears at head). Provenance: F.S. Ashley-Cooper (ownership inscription on title).
Pre-tour. Two great left-handed batsmen, Joe Darling, "a muscular thick set young man of medium height", and Clem Hill, then only 19, made their first appearance in England on this tour. Ernest Jones proved a fast bowling sensation, famously sending a ball through W.G. Grace's beard for four byes at Lord's which prompted the Doctor's remark: "Whatever are yet at, Jonah?" Nevertheless, England won the series 2-1, thanks to the bowling of Peel and Hearne on a sticky wicket in the final Test. Padwick 4981.
The Australian Cricketers' Team for 1896
London: George Howe, [1896]. 8vo., 12 portraits (browned), green buckram, preserving original green printed wrappers (browned at edges, front wrapper chipped and with clean tears at head). Provenance: F.S. Ashley-Cooper (ownership inscription on title).
Pre-tour. Two great left-handed batsmen, Joe Darling, "a muscular thick set young man of medium height", and Clem Hill, then only 19, made their first appearance in England on this tour. Ernest Jones proved a fast bowling sensation, famously sending a ball through W.G. Grace's beard for four byes at Lord's which prompted the Doctor's remark: "Whatever are yet at, Jonah?" Nevertheless, England won the series 2-1, thanks to the bowling of Peel and Hearne on a sticky wicket in the final Test. Padwick 4981.
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