WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1865 [and] 1868, edited by W.H. Crockford and W.H. Knight. London: John Wisden, 1865 and 1868. 8°. (1865 lacks title and last three leaves, 1868 lacks title and last 5 leaves.) Modern brown buckram, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges, original printed wrappers bound in (wrappers soiled). Provenance: ink annotation and deletions to pp. 44-45 of later volume. Second and fifth editions, the former including the full ‘Doings of the Twelve in Australia' under George Parr besides a growing coverage of domestic cricket. The length of the fifth edition fell back to 112p., exactly the same as the first.