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R.D. BEESTON and M.C.B. MASSIE (illustrator). St. Ivo and the Ashes: A Correct, True and Particular History of the Hon. Ivo Bligh's Crusade in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Press Agency, [1883].
8º (214 x 132mm).11 photo-lithographic plates after Massie. Mid 20th-century green buckram, spine gilt lettered, original pink pictorial and printed wrappers bound in (front cover slightly soiled). Provenance: John Arlott (binding) --A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold Phillips, A Collection of Cricketana, 20-21 November 1985, lot 419).
A RARE AND RESONANT TITLE. Beeston was late Bengal Staff corps, and Massie late 13th Light Dragoons. As the preface makes clear, the former's light-hearted report was designed primarily as a vehicle for Massie's pen-and-ink sketches. Made during the progress of the series, they incorporate the English lion and Australian kangaroo in comic combat. In fact, the series was tied, England and Australia both winning two of the four matches. But it had been originally intended there should be three matches only. When England won two of these, 'a bevy of Melbourne ladies', headed by a Miss Florence Morphy, presented the England Captain (and her future husband), the Hon. Ivo Bligh, with a small urn containing the ashes of a burned-out cricket stump, now the game's most valued trophy. Allen 128; Padwick 4408.
8º (214 x 132mm).11 photo-lithographic plates after Massie. Mid 20th-century green buckram, spine gilt lettered, original pink pictorial and printed wrappers bound in (front cover slightly soiled). Provenance: John Arlott (binding) --A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold Phillips, A Collection of Cricketana, 20-21 November 1985, lot 419).
A RARE AND RESONANT TITLE. Beeston was late Bengal Staff corps, and Massie late 13th Light Dragoons. As the preface makes clear, the former's light-hearted report was designed primarily as a vehicle for Massie's pen-and-ink sketches. Made during the progress of the series, they incorporate the English lion and Australian kangaroo in comic combat. In fact, the series was tied, England and Australia both winning two of the four matches. But it had been originally intended there should be three matches only. When England won two of these, 'a bevy of Melbourne ladies', headed by a Miss Florence Morphy, presented the England Captain (and her future husband), the Hon. Ivo Bligh, with a small urn containing the ashes of a burned-out cricket stump, now the game's most valued trophy. Allen 128; Padwick 4408.
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