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WILLIAM LAMBERT
Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and sold by J. Baxter, London: Langley and Co., R. Harrild, Baldwin & Co. & Sherwood and Co., and Derby: Mozley, [1816?]. 12mo. (6¼ x x 3¾in; 157 x 92mm), 55p., folding engraved frontispiece (spotted at margins and crudely reattached to title), red calf for Goldman preserving original grey wrappers with pink title-label (front wrapper detached and glue stained). Provenance: "George Jackson/His Book/1823" (ownership inscription on verso of front wrapper; early marginalia in his hand) -- J.W. Goldman (pasted over bookplate; inserted invoice from Hodgson's, 26 June 1947, lot 212 for £5-5-0).
Second edition, variant imprint, with price of 2 shillings on title-label. A loosely-inserted letter from R.S. Rait Kerr to Goldman, dated Lord's Cricket Ground, 21 October [no year], states: "I am returning you the 2 copies of Lambert 2nd edition. Mr Jackson's emendations are very interesting and fit in very well with 'His book 1823'. The 2nd edition could not have appeared later than the early spring of 1817, and I fancy the alternative of 1816 is more probable ...." Padwick 383.
Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, printed and sold by J. Baxter, London: Langley and Co., R. Harrild, Baldwin & Co. & Sherwood and Co., and Derby: Mozley, [1816?]. 12mo. (6¼ x x 3¾in; 157 x 92mm), 55p., folding engraved frontispiece (spotted at margins and crudely reattached to title), red calf for Goldman preserving original grey wrappers with pink title-label (front wrapper detached and glue stained). Provenance: "George Jackson/His Book/1823" (ownership inscription on verso of front wrapper; early marginalia in his hand) -- J.W. Goldman (pasted over bookplate; inserted invoice from Hodgson's, 26 June 1947, lot 212 for £5-5-0).
Second edition, variant imprint, with price of 2 shillings on title-label. A loosely-inserted letter from R.S. Rait Kerr to Goldman, dated Lord's Cricket Ground, 21 October [no year], states: "I am returning you the 2 copies of Lambert 2nd edition. Mr Jackson's emendations are very interesting and fit in very well with 'His book 1823'. The 2nd edition could not have appeared later than the early spring of 1817, and I fancy the alternative of 1816 is more probable ...." Padwick 383.
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