DENISON, William. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R.Dark Lord’s Ground [and others], 1846. 8° (175 x 95mm). 76pp. Extra illustrated with portraits of R. Kynaston and C. Taylor. (Occasional small soil marks, portraits heavily spotted, occasional light spots elsewhere, B3 with lower corner torn away, without four advertisement leaves at end.). Contemporary purple cloth with gilt spine (some sunfading, endpapers renewed, without wrappers). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate).
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DENISON, William. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R.Dark Lord’s Ground [and others], 1846. 8° (175 x 95mm). 76pp. Extra illustrated with portraits of R. Kynaston and C. Taylor. (Occasional small soil marks, portraits heavily spotted, occasional light spots elsewhere, B3 with lower corner torn away, without four advertisement leaves at end.). Contemporary purple cloth with gilt spine (some sunfading, endpapers renewed, without wrappers). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate).

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DENISON, William. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R.Dark Lord’s Ground [and others], 1846. 8° (175 x 95mm). 76pp. Extra illustrated with portraits of R. Kynaston and C. Taylor. (Occasional small soil marks, portraits heavily spotted, occasional light spots elsewhere, B3 with lower corner torn away, without four advertisement leaves at end.). Contemporary purple cloth with gilt spine (some sunfading, endpapers renewed, without wrappers). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate).

AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK, A ‘RARE ITEM’ in the view of both Taylor and Goldman, containing thirty-seven early and highly readable biographies by Denison, the acknowledged ‘first real cricket reporter’. The contemporary binding is plain but charming. Allen 47; Goldman p.173; Taylor p. 40; Padwick 876 & 7201.
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