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RICHARD DAFT
Kings of Cricket: reminiscences and anecdotes with hints on the game, introduction by Andrew Lang
Bolton: Tillotson, 1893. 4to., frontispiece portrait of the author, full-page portraits and smaller illustrations, 6-page list of subscribers at end (light spotting of preliminaries), original brown cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (neatly rebacked and recornered in blue morocco). Provenance: R.S. Bullock (ownership inscription, dated December 25, 1898).
SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION ON LARGE PAPER LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. With two inserted letters to Daft from Lord Bessborough and Andrew Lang, and a third letter from Daft to A. J. Gaston. Andrew Lang's 4-page letter, dated 1 Marloes Road W., 27 October [1892?], concerns Daft's as yet unpublished manuscript: "I shall be pleased to see your manuscript" Lang writes, advising that it be typed since "in that form it is easily read, and corrections can easily and inexpensively be made"; he recommends A.P. Watt as "a literary agent much employed by novelists, and ... in relations with newspaper syndicates." Daft's letter to Gaston from Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts, 7 March [18]99, encloses two handbills "which may perhaps interest you", recommends that photographs by Hawkins of Spofforth and Murdoch be included in a forthcoming book, and promises to "send ... the old bat by the end of the week". Allen 140; Goldman p. 117; Taylor p. 39; Padwick 903.
Kings of Cricket: reminiscences and anecdotes with hints on the game, introduction by Andrew Lang
Bolton: Tillotson, 1893. 4to., frontispiece portrait of the author, full-page portraits and smaller illustrations, 6-page list of subscribers at end (light spotting of preliminaries), original brown cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (neatly rebacked and recornered in blue morocco). Provenance: R.S. Bullock (ownership inscription, dated December 25, 1898).
SUBSCRIBERS' EDITION ON LARGE PAPER LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. With two inserted letters to Daft from Lord Bessborough and Andrew Lang, and a third letter from Daft to A. J. Gaston. Andrew Lang's 4-page letter, dated 1 Marloes Road W., 27 October [1892?], concerns Daft's as yet unpublished manuscript: "I shall be pleased to see your manuscript" Lang writes, advising that it be typed since "in that form it is easily read, and corrections can easily and inexpensively be made"; he recommends A.P. Watt as "a literary agent much employed by novelists, and ... in relations with newspaper syndicates." Daft's letter to Gaston from Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts, 7 March [18]99, encloses two handbills "which may perhaps interest you", recommends that photographs by Hawkins of Spofforth and Murdoch be included in a forthcoming book, and promises to "send ... the old bat by the end of the week". Allen 140; Goldman p. 117; Taylor p. 39; Padwick 903.
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