WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1911-[1915], edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1911-1915, 5 volumes, 8° (161 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate in each volume. (1911 with a few short tears, 1913 slightly soiled.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers (1913 worn with block twisted, others with light rubbing, spines of 1912 and 1915 creased, 1915 with one corner badly bumped and small red mark on front cover, bookplate over advertisement on front pastedowns). ALL HARDBACK EDITIONS, forty-eighth to fifty-second in the series. G.A. Faulkner of South Africa becomes only the second man to score a century and take five wickets in a Test match (1910 season). Kent’s F.H. Huish becomes the first wicket-keeper to trap 100 victims in the 1911 season and he repeats the feat in 1913. S.F. Barnes takes 49 wickets in the 1913-14 Test series against South Africa, at an average of under 11 runs this is still an unbeaten record. The jubilee edition of 1913 contains a photograph and reminiscences of John Wisden. The 1915 edition was the first to be subject to a price increase for paper bound copies, they went up to 1/6d having held their price for half a century, while the hardback edition rose to 2/10d.