![LAMBERT, William. Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket with its laws corrected. Sussex Press, Lewes: J. Baxter, London: Simpkin & Marshall, [c.1830 –1832] [on paper watermarked 1824], 12° (142 x 93mm). 42pp. folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. (Corners creased, stain on bottom left hand corner of final 8 pages and top right corner of last page.) Original printed buff paper wrappers (rebacked, covers soiled and worn at corners). Provenance: purchased from J.W. McKenzie in 1995.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0074_000(lambert_william_lamberts_cricketers_guide_or_instructions_and_rules_fo120710).jpg?w=1)
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LAMBERT, William. Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket with its laws corrected. Sussex Press, Lewes: J. Baxter, London: Simpkin & Marshall, [c.1830 –1832] [on paper watermarked 1824], 12° (142 x 93mm). 42pp. folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. (Corners creased, stain on bottom left hand corner of final 8 pages and top right corner of last page.) Original printed buff paper wrappers (rebacked, covers soiled and worn at corners). Provenance: purchased from J.W. McKenzie in 1995.
THE RARE TWELFTH EDITION. Though larger than the tenth edition, it is still smaller than the early editions and again of reduced length, though the type is smaller and more condensed. This was in fact the last edition, published after the so called ‘twentieth’ edition, and is, after the eleventh edition, probably the rarest. It is the only edition which prints the laws of cricket in their proper form and sequence, incorporating the law changes made between 1829 and 1830. Though advertised for sale in the Sussex Agricultural Express in June 1837, it is believed to have been initially offered for sale between 1830 and 1832, some two to four years after the ‘twentieth’ edition. The cricketing woodcut appears both on the title and on the front cover. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 12th (illustrated); Padwick 383.
THE RARE TWELFTH EDITION. Though larger than the tenth edition, it is still smaller than the early editions and again of reduced length, though the type is smaller and more condensed. This was in fact the last edition, published after the so called ‘twentieth’ edition, and is, after the eleventh edition, probably the rarest. It is the only edition which prints the laws of cricket in their proper form and sequence, incorporating the law changes made between 1829 and 1830. Though advertised for sale in the Sussex Agricultural Express in June 1837, it is believed to have been initially offered for sale between 1830 and 1832, some two to four years after the ‘twentieth’ edition. The cricketing woodcut appears both on the title and on the front cover. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 12th (illustrated); Padwick 383.
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