拍品 110
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JOHN WISDEN
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JOHN WISDEN

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JOHN WISDEN
Cricketers' Almanack
London: John Wisden, 1901-09. 7 volumes, 1901-02 and 1903-04 bound in 2 vols., 8vo., each with mounted photographic plate, 1905-09 with advertisements (plate in 1906 detached, other advertisements lacking), uniform green half calf, gilt spines dated and numbered "Vol. 15-21" (rubbed, 1909 with inner hinges split), red speckled or marbled edges (original wrappers not bound in). Provenance: P.F. Warner (signature on front pastedown in 1901-02, 1906 and on 1903 title; spines of 1908-09 with gilt initials "P.F.W"). (7)
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In the 1904 Wisden, P.F. Warner is named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. His portrait is illustrated and his biography states, "A more enthusiastic player it would be impossible to find anywhere. Cricket, if one may be permitted the expression, is the very breath of his nostrils".