![BOXALL, Thomas. Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket, as practised by the most eminent players. London: printed by E. Billing, [1804]. 12° (133 x 85mm). 80pp.,with the unpaginated leaf on single wicket matches bound into quire F. (Lacking left-hand flap of frontispiece, D2-5 with upper corners torn away, inserted leaf and F4 stained at inner margin.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut (spine restored at foot, some losses to marbled paper).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0052_000(boxall_thomas_rules_and_instructions_for_playing_at_the_game_of_cricke120203).jpg?w=1)
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BOXALL, Thomas. Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket, as practised by the most eminent players. London: printed by E. Billing, [1804]. 12° (133 x 85mm). 80pp.,with the unpaginated leaf on single wicket matches bound into quire F. (Lacking left-hand flap of frontispiece, D2-5 with upper corners torn away, inserted leaf and F4 stained at inner margin.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut (spine restored at foot, some losses to marbled paper).
THIRD EDITION, THIRD ISSUE OF THE FIRST PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE GAME. Dedicated to the Mary-le bone Club. this charmingly diminutive book subjoins the ‘Laws and Regulations of Cricketters [sic], and revised by the Cricket Club at Mary-le-bone’. It is very much of pocket size, but unlikely to stand up long to continuous use as a ready reference. For Taylor it is ‘perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days’, while Goldman considered it ‘the rarest of all cricket items’. While lacking part of the frontispiece, this is a crisp, clean copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Allen 11; Rait-Kerr p. 120; Goldman p.168; Taylor p.17/18; Padwick 373. Together with 7 facsimile volumes of all Boxall editions in gilt-lettered blue cloth.
THIRD EDITION, THIRD ISSUE OF THE FIRST PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE GAME. Dedicated to the Mary-le bone Club. this charmingly diminutive book subjoins the ‘Laws and Regulations of Cricketters [sic], and revised by the Cricket Club at Mary-le-bone’. It is very much of pocket size, but unlikely to stand up long to continuous use as a ready reference. For Taylor it is ‘perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days’, while Goldman considered it ‘the rarest of all cricket items’. While lacking part of the frontispiece, this is a crisp, clean copy in an attractive contemporary binding. Allen 11; Rait-Kerr p. 120; Goldman p.168; Taylor p.17/18; Padwick 373. Together with 7 facsimile volumes of all Boxall editions in gilt-lettered blue cloth.
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