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WILLIAM LAMBERT
The Cricketer's Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. Sherwood and Co. and Longman and Co., Derby: Mozely, [1821?]. 12mo. (5½in x 3¼in; 140 x 85mm), 61 + 3p. advertisements, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut tail-piece (title offset, some browning and spotting of margins), blue half morocco by Bernard Middleton for Eagar. Provenance: Robert Stratten Holmes (inscription on title, dated Liverpool, 19.3.[18]80).
Seventh edition, noticeably reduced in size. A woodcut tail-piece is added at the end of the introduction, but the vignette has been dropped from the over-crowded title-page. As Eagar notes, the frontispiece in this copy is in an altered state with birds flying by the castle. Padwick 383.
The Cricketer's Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. Sherwood and Co. and Longman and Co., Derby: Mozely, [1821?]. 12mo. (5½in x 3¼in; 140 x 85mm), 61 + 3p. advertisements, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut tail-piece (title offset, some browning and spotting of margins), blue half morocco by Bernard Middleton for Eagar. Provenance: Robert Stratten Holmes (inscription on title, dated Liverpool, 19.3.[18]80).
Seventh edition, noticeably reduced in size. A woodcut tail-piece is added at the end of the introduction, but the vignette has been dropped from the over-crowded title-page. As Eagar notes, the frontispiece in this copy is in an altered state with birds flying by the castle. Padwick 383.
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