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A Complete List of All the Grand Matches of Cricket that have been played in the Years 1804 & 1805 ... by Stanhope and Graham
London: G. Hayden, 1806. 8vo. (8 x 4¾in; 204 x 121mm) in half sheets, 30p. (some thumb-soiling and old waterstaining), disbound. Provenance: S. Killick (first owner's signature on rear blank, crossed through) -- John Hammond (1769-1844, ownership inscription dated Storrington, 12 July 1806, on the same leaf).
ONLY RECORDED COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS. For reasons that are not altogether clear, Britcher's name no longer appears on the title-page of the fifteenth and final edition of his scorebook. The names of Stanhope and Graham replace his, presumably because they had taken over his role as scorer, though there is no attempt to explain the transition. Another break with tradition is the compilation of this issue over two years rather than one. However, continuity is evident since G. Hayden was the printer both of this edition, and of Britcher's last named scorebook of 1803. There is no change to the typography or style of layout, the laws of cricket appearing on the last six pages. D.R. Allen's census in Britcher's Scores (Newnham-on-Severn, 2003, p. 135) records 3 copies only, the two others being at MCC (Ashley-Cooper/Cahn copy) and the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.
The above provenance applies to all four issues of Britcher being sold, but the leaf with the signatures of Killick and Hammond is sold with the present edition, having been bound adjacent to it as an end flyleaf. Allen 9; Goldman p. 35: "perhaps the rarest of known cricket items"; Taylor p. 19; Padwick 869.
A Complete List of All the Grand Matches of Cricket that have been played in the Years 1804 & 1805 ... by Stanhope and Graham
London: G. Hayden, 1806. 8vo. (8 x 4¾in; 204 x 121mm) in half sheets, 30p. (some thumb-soiling and old waterstaining), disbound. Provenance: S. Killick (first owner's signature on rear blank, crossed through) -- John Hammond (1769-1844, ownership inscription dated Storrington, 12 July 1806, on the same leaf).
ONLY RECORDED COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS. For reasons that are not altogether clear, Britcher's name no longer appears on the title-page of the fifteenth and final edition of his scorebook. The names of Stanhope and Graham replace his, presumably because they had taken over his role as scorer, though there is no attempt to explain the transition. Another break with tradition is the compilation of this issue over two years rather than one. However, continuity is evident since G. Hayden was the printer both of this edition, and of Britcher's last named scorebook of 1803. There is no change to the typography or style of layout, the laws of cricket appearing on the last six pages. D.R. Allen's census in Britcher's Scores (Newnham-on-Severn, 2003, p. 135) records 3 copies only, the two others being at MCC (Ashley-Cooper/Cahn copy) and the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.
The above provenance applies to all four issues of Britcher being sold, but the leaf with the signatures of Killick and Hammond is sold with the present edition, having been bound adjacent to it as an end flyleaf. Allen 9; Goldman p. 35: "perhaps the rarest of known cricket items"; Taylor p. 19; Padwick 869.
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