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WILLIAM LAMBERT
Cricketer's Guide; or, Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co., Sherwood and Co., and Longman and Co., Derby: Mozely, [1825?]. 12mo. (5¼ x 2¾in; 132 x 74mm), 47 + 1p. advertisement, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette (frontispiece and title with short tears at fore-margin), brown buckram, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate).
Tenth edition. The upper blank margin of the frontispiece has been trimmed off in order to make the engraving fit the reduced page-size. However, a shorter title has allowed for the re-introduction of the woodblock which has been slightly recut. Padwick 383.
Cricketer's Guide; or, Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co., Sherwood and Co., and Longman and Co., Derby: Mozely, [1825?]. 12mo. (5¼ x 2¾in; 132 x 74mm), 47 + 1p. advertisement, folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette (frontispiece and title with short tears at fore-margin), brown buckram, original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (bookplate).
Tenth edition. The upper blank margin of the frontispiece has been trimmed off in order to make the engraving fit the reduced page-size. However, a shorter title has allowed for the re-introduction of the woodblock which has been slightly recut. Padwick 383.
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