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RANDLE COTGRAVE
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues
London: Adam Islip, 1611. Folio, woodcut title border (lacks quire 4N, 6ll., and folding table, early quires dampstained at inner margin, worming at upper margin of quires H-L, quire 4M with 2ll. loose), old half calf (rubbed and bumped). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; lot 9 in his auction at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, sold to Hannas for £14). Exhibited: Cricket. A Catalogue of an Exhibition by the National Book League, 1950, no. 23.
FIRST EDITION. The French word "crosse" is translated as "a crosier, or Bishops staffe; also, a Cricket staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at cricket". STC 5830; Goldman p. 75: "perhaps the earliest reference to cricket so spelt"; Padwick 843.
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues
London: Adam Islip, 1611. Folio, woodcut title border (lacks quire 4N, 6ll., and folding table, early quires dampstained at inner margin, worming at upper margin of quires H-L, quire 4M with 2ll. loose), old half calf (rubbed and bumped). Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; lot 9 in his auction at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, sold to Hannas for £14). Exhibited: Cricket. A Catalogue of an Exhibition by the National Book League, 1950, no. 23.
FIRST EDITION. The French word "crosse" is translated as "a crosier, or Bishops staffe; also, a Cricket staffe; or, the crooked staffe wherewith boyes play at cricket". STC 5830; Goldman p. 75: "perhaps the earliest reference to cricket so spelt"; Padwick 843.
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