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HENRY BENTLEY
A Correct Acccount of All the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive. - An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches played in the Year 1823. - A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches ... played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, in the Years 1824 and 1825
London: T. Traveller, 1823-1826. 3 volumes in one, 8vo. (7½ x 4½in; 193 x 117mm). [374]; [20]; [42]p. Collation: [*4] *F-*Z4 A-I4 L3 K-Z4 2A-2D4; a4-b6; [*1] [A4] B-E4. (Some spotting and staining, a few marginal tears, second supplement cropped with slight loss of text on verso of first leaf.) Mid-20th-century half calf by Riviere, gilt edges. Provenance: J. King (ownership inscription on verso of half-title, dated "Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk 1827", his gift to:) -- Fuller Pilch (presentation inscription in King's hand on half-title verso, reading: "presented to Fuller Pilch Norwich 1833"; inscription in Pilch's hand across title reading "Fuller Pilch Canterbury Kent 1850", repeated on following leaf, occasional notes and score marks in the same hand) -- J.W. Goldman (bookplate; sold at Hodgson's 24 November 1966, lot 130, to Epworth for £30).
FULLER PILCH'S COPY OF BENTLEY, WITH THE TWO RARE SUPPLEMENTS BOUND IN. Among the greatest of 19th-century batsmen, Pilch (1804-1870) was born in Norfolk and was originally a tailor by occupation. He became strongly associated with Kent, moving to Town Malling in 1835, and then to Canterbury seven years later. As his occasional notes make clear, he came from a family of cricketers. Three of the Norfolk players in the match between Eleven of All England and Thirty-three of the County of Norfolk, played at Swaffham, 17 July 1797, all with the name Fuller, were his "great uncles". The match between Sussex and Epsom, 2 July 1817, impresses him with its "grand total -- 1047". That between Mary-le-bone and Norfolk at Lord's, 24 July 1820, is noteworthy because W. Ward was "at the wicket the greater part of 3 days" for his 278. Pilch himself was one of "three brothers" on the Norfolk side, and he remarks of himself: "F.P. -- age 17 -- his first match of any note" (in fact, he may have been 16). The scores made by Thomas Lord were clearly a source of interest as they are marked with a dash; Lord's score of 11 for the Earl Winchilsea's side against Sir Horace Mann (see *F3r) has the explanatory note "the first proprietor of the present Lord's Ground". Another note identifies a 1790 match between H. Mann and A. Smith's side at Berriam Downs as being "Nr. Canterbury -- Bourne Park". There are no annotations to the first supplement; that on A3r of the second supplement relates to one of Pilch's scores but appears to be in a different hand. Allen 20; Goldman p. 29; Taylor p. 15; Padwick 1221.
A Correct Acccount of All the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive. - An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches played in the Year 1823. - A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches ... played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and All Other Principal Matches, in the Years 1824 and 1825
London: T. Traveller, 1823-1826. 3 volumes in one, 8vo. (7½ x 4½in; 193 x 117mm). [374]; [20]; [42]p. Collation: [*
FULLER PILCH'S COPY OF BENTLEY, WITH THE TWO RARE SUPPLEMENTS BOUND IN. Among the greatest of 19th-century batsmen, Pilch (1804-1870) was born in Norfolk and was originally a tailor by occupation. He became strongly associated with Kent, moving to Town Malling in 1835, and then to Canterbury seven years later. As his occasional notes make clear, he came from a family of cricketers. Three of the Norfolk players in the match between Eleven of All England and Thirty-three of the County of Norfolk, played at Swaffham, 17 July 1797, all with the name Fuller, were his "great uncles". The match between Sussex and Epsom, 2 July 1817, impresses him with its "grand total -- 1047". That between Mary-le-bone and Norfolk at Lord's, 24 July 1820, is noteworthy because W. Ward was "at the wicket the greater part of 3 days" for his 278. Pilch himself was one of "three brothers" on the Norfolk side, and he remarks of himself: "F.P. -- age 17 -- his first match of any note" (in fact, he may have been 16). The scores made by Thomas Lord were clearly a source of interest as they are marked with a dash; Lord's score of 11 for the Earl Winchilsea's side against Sir Horace Mann (see *F3r) has the explanatory note "the first proprietor of the present Lord's Ground". Another note identifies a 1790 match between H. Mann and A. Smith's side at Berriam Downs as being "Nr. Canterbury -- Bourne Park". There are no annotations to the first supplement; that on A3r of the second supplement relates to one of Pilch's scores but appears to be in a different hand. Allen 20; Goldman p. 29; Taylor p. 15; Padwick 1221.
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