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FREDERICK GALE
Echoes from Old Cricket Fields: or Sketches of Cricket and Cricketers
London: Simpkin Marshall, 1871. 8vo., wood-engraved frontispiece, original pictorial boards (rebacked in cloth). FIRST EDITION. Allen 114; Goldman p. 78: "the 1871 edition is scarce"; Taylor p. 47; Padwick 809.
[with F. Gale's:]
The Public School Matches, and those we meet there
London: George Routledge, 1867. 2 parts, 8vo., lithographic frontispiece, wood-engraved illustration (rather soiled and spotted), original pictorial boards (rebacked in cloth, corners worn). Second edition, including Ups and Downs of a Public School. With a small contemporary photograph of the author, reverse inscribed "F. Gale, aged 60"; and the author's visiting card, inscribed "called Sat 7 Nov 1903" and "80! Not out" [?his age] in a different hand. Padwick 1345; and F. Gale's The Game of Cricket (1887), first edition in original boards (somewhat worn). (3)
Echoes from Old Cricket Fields: or Sketches of Cricket and Cricketers
London: Simpkin Marshall, 1871. 8vo., wood-engraved frontispiece, original pictorial boards (rebacked in cloth). FIRST EDITION. Allen 114; Goldman p. 78: "the 1871 edition is scarce"; Taylor p. 47; Padwick 809.
[with F. Gale's:]
The Public School Matches, and those we meet there
London: George Routledge, 1867. 2 parts, 8vo., lithographic frontispiece, wood-engraved illustration (rather soiled and spotted), original pictorial boards (rebacked in cloth, corners worn). Second edition, including Ups and Downs of a Public School. With a small contemporary photograph of the author, reverse inscribed "F. Gale, aged 60"; and the author's visiting card, inscribed "called Sat 7 Nov 1903" and "80! Not out" [?his age] in a different hand. Padwick 1345; and F. Gale's The Game of Cricket (1887), first edition in original boards (somewhat worn). (3)
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