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The Game at Cricket as settled by the several cricket-clubs, particularly that of the Star and Garter in Pall-Mall
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LAWS OF 1755
The Game at Cricket as settled by the several cricket-clubs, particularly that of the Star and Garter in Pall-Mall
London: M. Read and W. Reeve, 1755. 12mo. (6½ x 3¾in; 164 x 96mm), 19 + [1]p., with half-title (upper right hand corners nibbled), blue calf for Goldman, the front cover gilt lettered: 'The Game at Cricket/Printed in Fleet Street/MDCCLV', spine lettered 'The Game at Cricket Star & Garter 1755', UNCUT, ORIGINAL BLUE-GREY WRAPPERS PRESERVED, front wrapper inscribed 'Game at Cricket' in an early hand. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; lot 62 at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, bought in at £28 and purchased after the sale by Eagar who observes "[Goldman] asks £50 paid £40").
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE LAWS OF CRICKET IN PAMPHLET FORM. NO COPY IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY. The on-line English Short Title Catalogue records no holdings at all in contributing libraries in the British Isles or North America. The Marshall-MCC copy has been reproduced in R.S. Rait Kerr's Laws of Cricket (1950) but lacks the half-title (shown above). Taylor and Padwick err in listing the title as "The Game of" rather than "The Game at Cricket", and are probably wrong in calling for a frontispiece since careful examination of the Julian Marshall copy shows the frontispiece to be tipped-in and almost certainly supplied from a later edition. Allen 3; Goldman p. 92; Taylor p. 48; Padwick 151.
The Game at Cricket as settled by the several cricket-clubs, particularly that of the Star and Garter in Pall-Mall
London: M. Read and W. Reeve, 1755. 12mo. (6½ x 3¾in; 164 x 96mm), 19 + [1]p., with half-title (upper right hand corners nibbled), blue calf for Goldman, the front cover gilt lettered: 'The Game at Cricket/Printed in Fleet Street/MDCCLV', spine lettered 'The Game at Cricket Star & Garter 1755', UNCUT, ORIGINAL BLUE-GREY WRAPPERS PRESERVED, front wrapper inscribed 'Game at Cricket' in an early hand. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate; lot 62 at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, bought in at £28 and purchased after the sale by Eagar who observes "[Goldman] asks £50 paid £40").
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE LAWS OF CRICKET IN PAMPHLET FORM. NO COPY IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY. The on-line English Short Title Catalogue records no holdings at all in contributing libraries in the British Isles or North America. The Marshall-MCC copy has been reproduced in R.S. Rait Kerr's Laws of Cricket (1950) but lacks the half-title (shown above). Taylor and Padwick err in listing the title as "The Game of" rather than "The Game at Cricket", and are probably wrong in calling for a frontispiece since careful examination of the Julian Marshall copy shows the frontispiece to be tipped-in and almost certainly supplied from a later edition. Allen 3; Goldman p. 92; Taylor p. 48; Padwick 151.
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