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BENTLEY, Henry. A Correct Account of All Cricket Matches ... played ... 1786 to 1822. London: T. Traveller, 1823. 8° (203 x 120mm). (Soiling to margins, some spotting, *S4 torn at upper margin.) Uncut in contemporary marbled boards backed in black calf (spine restored but subsequently worn, front cover detaching). Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 19).
BENTLEY, Henry. A Correct Account of All Cricket Matches ... played ... 1786 to 1822. London: T. Traveller, 1823. 8° (203 x 120mm). (Soiling to margins, some spotting, *S4 torn at upper margin.) Uncut in contemporary marbled boards backed in black calf (spine restored but subsequently worn, front cover detaching). Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 19).

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BENTLEY, Henry. A Correct Account of All Cricket Matches ... played ... 1786 to 1822. London: T. Traveller, 1823. 8° (203 x 120mm). (Soiling to margins, some spotting, *S4 torn at upper margin.) Uncut in contemporary marbled boards backed in black calf (spine restored but subsequently worn, front cover detaching). Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 19).

A player and umpire, Bentley was preceded only by Britcher and Epps as the author of a cricket scorebook, today invaluable as a record of the game over the forty years preceding publication. Padwick 1221.

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