WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1877, edited by W.H. Knight. London: John Wisden and Co., 1877. 8° (150 x 93mm). (Occasional thumb soiling.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, original printed wrappers bound in (wrappers somewhat soiled and mounted on guards, unidentified stamp on rear wrapper).
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WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1877, edited by W.H. Knight. London: John Wisden and Co., 1877. 8° (150 x 93mm). (Occasional thumb soiling.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, original printed wrappers bound in (wrappers somewhat soiled and mounted on guards, unidentified stamp on rear wrapper).

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WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1877, edited by W.H. Knight. London: John Wisden and Co., 1877. 8° (150 x 93mm). (Occasional thumb soiling.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, original printed wrappers bound in (wrappers somewhat soiled and mounted on guards, unidentified stamp on rear wrapper).

FOURTEENTH EDITION which includes the obituary of Nicholas Felix and a one-page feature on ‘The Four English Twelves who have visited Australia’, the current side being James Lillywhite’s. W.G. Grace emerges as the top century maker in 1876 with 400 not out for the United South of England Eleven against 22 of Grimsby, and the first ever triple centuries in first class cricket, 344 for M.C.C. v Kent, and 318 not out for Gloucestershire v Yorkshire.
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