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JOHN NYREN
The Young Cricketer's Tutor, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. 12mo., engraved frontispiece of Lord's (some spotting and staining, one leaf in quire C with segment torn from outer margin), original green cloth with paper label on upper cover (newly rebacked, preserving old spine, corners a little bumped, new endpapers).
FIRST EDITION, without the advertisements at end. "If Love was the Homer of Cricket," wrote Andrew Lang, "Nyren was undoubtedly the delightful Herodotus of the early Historic Period" (Cricket, ed. A.G. Steel and R.H. Lyttelton, 1888, p. 17). The cricketer was born at Hambledon on 15 December 1764, and died at Bromley 28 June, 1837. He shared a love of music with Charles Cowden Clarke, author, musician, lecturer, and friend of Keats. Clarke had the inspiration to transfer his reminiscences to paper and save them for posterity in the shape of this unassuming but invaluable book. Allen 26; Britton p. 33; Goldman p. 210; Taylor p. 76; Padwick 390.
The Young Cricketer's Tutor, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. 12mo., engraved frontispiece of Lord's (some spotting and staining, one leaf in quire C with segment torn from outer margin), original green cloth with paper label on upper cover (newly rebacked, preserving old spine, corners a little bumped, new endpapers).
FIRST EDITION, without the advertisements at end. "If Love was the Homer of Cricket," wrote Andrew Lang, "Nyren was undoubtedly the delightful Herodotus of the early Historic Period" (Cricket, ed. A.G. Steel and R.H. Lyttelton, 1888, p. 17). The cricketer was born at Hambledon on 15 December 1764, and died at Bromley 28 June, 1837. He shared a love of music with Charles Cowden Clarke, author, musician, lecturer, and friend of Keats. Clarke had the inspiration to transfer his reminiscences to paper and save them for posterity in the shape of this unassuming but invaluable book. Allen 26; Britton p. 33; Goldman p. 210; Taylor p. 76; Padwick 390.
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