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JOHN WISDEN
Cricketers' Almanack for 1916. London: John Wisden and Co., [1916]. 8vo (A few leaves slightly soiled.) Original publisher's hardback cloth (extremities rubbed, gilt tarnished, Lancing College library label on lower pastedown). Provenance: P. 149 of 'Deaths in 1915', announcing the death of Rupert Brooke, is inscribed across the page: 'The greatest poet of the 20th century to date "If I should die ..."' -- R.C. Shaw, Lancing College (inscriptions on front pastedown).
Cricketers' Almanack for 1916. London: John Wisden and Co., [1916]. 8vo (A few leaves slightly soiled.) Original publisher's hardback cloth (extremities rubbed, gilt tarnished, Lancing College library label on lower pastedown). Provenance: P. 149 of 'Deaths in 1915', announcing the death of Rupert Brooke, is inscribed across the page: 'The greatest poet of the 20th century to date "If I should die ..."' -- R.C. Shaw, Lancing College (inscriptions on front pastedown).