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F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER
Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia. [London: Merritt and Hatcher], 1911. 8vo. (Light spotting to title and verso of final leaf.) Original printed red wrappers (stitch marks to spine). Provenance: AUTHOR'S COPY (previously bound with two other copies in his red cloth binding) -- Julien Cahn.
ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES, out-of-series copy without the limitation statement on back cover. This rare 16-page chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All-Indian team to England in 1911. It is the first recorded history of Indian cricket, and the author's only chronology of cricket overseas. Wynne-Thomas p. 23; Padwick 3805.
Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia. [London: Merritt and Hatcher], 1911. 8vo. (Light spotting to title and verso of final leaf.) Original printed red wrappers (stitch marks to spine). Provenance: AUTHOR'S COPY (previously bound with two other copies in his red cloth binding) -- Julien Cahn.
ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES, out-of-series copy without the limitation statement on back cover. This rare 16-page chronology spans a period from 1743 up to the visit of the All-Indian team to England in 1911. It is the first recorded history of Indian cricket, and the author's only chronology of cricket overseas. Wynne-Thomas p. 23; Padwick 3805.