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WILLIAM LAMBERT
Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and published by J. Baxter, and sold in London by Baldwin & Co., [1816]. 12mo. (5¾ x 3¼in; 144 x 85mm), 55p., folding engraved frontispiece (foremargin cropped), 20th-century green calf, red speckled edges (slightly bowed).
FIRST EDITION, second issue of this well-known successor to Boxall's Guide, nominally by Lambert. The frontispiece shows a game at Lewes, with a key to positions in the field, similar to Boxall's. FINE COPY though without the wrappers. Allen 17; Goldman p. 119; Taylor p. 61; Padwick 383.
Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and published by J. Baxter, and sold in London by Baldwin & Co., [1816]. 12mo. (5¾ x 3¼in; 144 x 85mm), 55p., folding engraved frontispiece (foremargin cropped), 20th-century green calf, red speckled edges (slightly bowed).
FIRST EDITION, second issue of this well-known successor to Boxall's Guide, nominally by Lambert. The frontispiece shows a game at Lewes, with a key to positions in the field, similar to Boxall's. FINE COPY though without the wrappers. Allen 17; Goldman p. 119; Taylor p. 61; Padwick 383.
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