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THOMAS BOXALL
Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket
London: E. Billing, 1804. 2 parts in one vol., 12mo., collation: A-F6 G4, with an inserted leaf in quire F on "Single-wicket Matches" (minus G2-3 which are supplied in facsimile, lacks the frontispiece which is also in facsimile), contemporary marbled boards (rebacked in calf), modern calf-backed cloth case. Provenance: E.J. Alvis, Lynn, Norfolk (inscription on front endpaper; contemporary pen-and-ink sketch, based on the frontispiece, on rear endpaper; two team lists pencilled on rear pastedown).
Third edition, third issue, of the first practical treatise on the game, containing the laws in the second part. Taylor (p. 17) called Boxall's pocket book "perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days". Allen 11; Rait-Kerr p. 120; Padwick 373.
Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket
London: E. Billing, 1804. 2 parts in one vol., 12mo., collation: A-F
Third edition, third issue, of the first practical treatise on the game, containing the laws in the second part. Taylor (p. 17) called Boxall's pocket book "perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days". Allen 11; Rait-Kerr p. 120; Padwick 373.
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