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F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER
Feats, Facts and Figures of 1906. London: Merritt and Hatcher, 1907. Small 8vo. (Slight creasemark at upper margin of limitation leaf and next two leaves.) Contemporary green buckram for A.L. Ford, lettered in black, preserving original printed, pale blue front wrapper (wrapper lightly spotted and dust-soiled). PRESENTATION COPY TO ALFRED J. GASTON (his name inscribed by Ashley-Cooper at head of limitation leaf), thence to: -- A.L. Ford (binding and bookplate).
COPY NO. 25 AND ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES ISSUED, signed by the author on limitation leaf. Including records made by the West Indians, this issue first appeared in Cricket, 20 September 1906-28 March 1907. Although Ashley-Cooper went on to publish 'Facts, Feats and Figures of 1913' in the Athletic News Cricket Annual of 1914, and continued his statistical series in the same journal after the war, this was the last of the series of booklets so titled. FINE EXAMPLE. Wynne-Thomas p. 21; Padwick 920.
Feats, Facts and Figures of 1906. London: Merritt and Hatcher, 1907. Small 8vo. (Slight creasemark at upper margin of limitation leaf and next two leaves.) Contemporary green buckram for A.L. Ford, lettered in black, preserving original printed, pale blue front wrapper (wrapper lightly spotted and dust-soiled). PRESENTATION COPY TO ALFRED J. GASTON (his name inscribed by Ashley-Cooper at head of limitation leaf), thence to: -- A.L. Ford (binding and bookplate).
COPY NO. 25 AND ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES ISSUED, signed by the author on limitation leaf. Including records made by the West Indians, this issue first appeared in Cricket, 20 September 1906-28 March 1907. Although Ashley-Cooper went on to publish 'Facts, Feats and Figures of 1913' in the Athletic News Cricket Annual of 1914, and continued his statistical series in the same journal after the war, this was the last of the series of booklets so titled. FINE EXAMPLE. Wynne-Thomas p. 21; Padwick 920.