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F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER
Cricket, 1742-1751
London: Merritt and Hatcher for private circulation, [1900]. 8vo., later green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original printed wrappers preserved (spotting to wrappers). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO C.F. ADAMSON (inscription on title dated 30 March, 1900) -- [John Arlott?] -- A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold by Phillips, 21 November 1985, lot 394).
NO. 9 OF 15 COPIES, originally published in Cricket in six parts in early 1900. This small but important history, in Merritt and Hatcher's minute print, reproduces contemporary match reports in chronological order, and also reprints the laws of 1744, ending with brief biographical notes. Charles Frederick Adamson, to whom this copy was given, was the dedicatee of Curiosities of First Class Cricket (see next lot). Wynne-Thomas p. 18; Padwick 865.
Cricket, 1742-1751
London: Merritt and Hatcher for private circulation, [1900]. 8vo., later green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original printed wrappers preserved (spotting to wrappers). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY TO C.F. ADAMSON (inscription on title dated 30 March, 1900) -- [John Arlott?] -- A.E. Winder (bookplate; sold by Phillips, 21 November 1985, lot 394).
NO. 9 OF 15 COPIES, originally published in Cricket in six parts in early 1900. This small but important history, in Merritt and Hatcher's minute print, reproduces contemporary match reports in chronological order, and also reprints the laws of 1744, ending with brief biographical notes. Charles Frederick Adamson, to whom this copy was given, was the dedicatee of Curiosities of First Class Cricket (see next lot). Wynne-Thomas p. 18; Padwick 865.
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