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H.M. RIDLEY
7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches played from 1873-1888
Secunderabad: at the Albion Press by Ramreddy, [1889]. 8vo., [iv], 120p., title with vignette and border, contemporary cloth with morocco label on front cover (joints a little cracked). PRESENTATION COPY (inscribed in pencil: "With H.M. Ridley's best wishes -- 'o mihi praeteritas referat in Jupiter annos'" ['would that Jove would take me back to past years']) -- Leslie Gutteridge (sold Lawrences, Crewkerne, 16 January 2004, lot 136).
A RARE CRICKET ITEM, as the matches were played and the book first published in India. Inscribed in pencil "?Only copy in England L.G." cf. Padwick 1697, describing only the English edition.
7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches played from 1873-1888
Secunderabad: at the Albion Press by Ramreddy, [1889]. 8vo., [iv], 120p., title with vignette and border, contemporary cloth with morocco label on front cover (joints a little cracked). PRESENTATION COPY (inscribed in pencil: "With H.M. Ridley's best wishes -- 'o mihi praeteritas referat in Jupiter annos'" ['would that Jove would take me back to past years']) -- Leslie Gutteridge (sold Lawrences, Crewkerne, 16 January 2004, lot 136).
A RARE CRICKET ITEM, as the matches were played and the book first published in India. Inscribed in pencil "?Only copy in England L.G." cf. Padwick 1697, describing only the English edition.
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