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The Victorian Sporting Record 1903
Melbourne: McCarron, Bird, 1903. 8vo., full-page illustrations, contemporary red cloth, preserving original pink printed wrappers (front wrapper torn with loss of border at upper margin). Provenance: J.C. Davis (editor of the Australian Cricket Annual; ownership inscription on front advertisement leaf and title).
ONLY EDITION in Padwick. Covers ten sports, leading with cricket (pp. 1-110), but also including lawn tennis, football, and golf. The illustrations portray "the leading exponents of each sport" in a photographic montage. A contemporary news clipping, reviewing the book, is tipped in. Padwick 3547.
The Victorian Sporting Record 1903
Melbourne: McCarron, Bird, 1903. 8vo., full-page illustrations, contemporary red cloth, preserving original pink printed wrappers (front wrapper torn with loss of border at upper margin). Provenance: J.C. Davis (editor of the Australian Cricket Annual; ownership inscription on front advertisement leaf and title).
ONLY EDITION in Padwick. Covers ten sports, leading with cricket (pp. 1-110), but also including lawn tennis, football, and golf. The illustrations portray "the leading exponents of each sport" in a photographic montage. A contemporary news clipping, reviewing the book, is tipped in. Padwick 3547.
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