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F.S. ASHLEY-COOPER
Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899. London: Merritt and Hatcher for private circulation, [1899]. Small 8vo, tail-piece. Brown half morocco for A.L. Ford by Riviere and Son, gilt-lettered spine, original green printed front wrapper bound in (extremities lightly rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY TO A.L. FORD (1843-1924, preliminary blank inscribed 'A.L. Ford, Esq,/30 Nov., 1899./Copy no. 15.'; tipped-in letter from the author to Ford, dated 12, Morella Road, Wandsworth Common, London S.W., 30 Nov., 1899, asking him: 'Will you kindly accept the enclosed? As you collect cricket litertature it may, perhaps, interest you ....').
COPY NO. 15 OF ONLY 20 COPIES ISSUED. Ashley-Cooper could not have chosen a more long-standing collector to be the recipient of this copy. As Rosenwater observes, Ford 'began collecting seriously as a youth in his teens in 1861, and maintained his hobby for over 60 years without his interest ever flaggng' (Great Collectors of the Past, 1976, p. 5). This was the first in a series of seven limited edition booklets compiled by 'the Herodotus of cricket', each small and compact and with tiny print bursting with every conceivable statistic. All first appeared serially in the weekly magazine, Cricket, this issue coming out in four parts, 27 September-21 December 1899. C.L. Townsend with nine and K.S. Ranjitsinhji with eight were the batsmen who scored most centuries that summer, followed by Abel, Hayward and R.M. Poore with a total of seven. Victor Trumper, on his first tour, is among thirteen batsmen with individual scores of over 200. Two bowlers took 10 wickets in an innings, Bland with 10 for 48, Sussex v Kent, and W.P. Howell with 10 for 28, Australia v Surrey. FINE COPY. Wynne-Thomas p. 18; Padwick 920.
Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899. London: Merritt and Hatcher for private circulation, [1899]. Small 8vo, tail-piece. Brown half morocco for A.L. Ford by Riviere and Son, gilt-lettered spine, original green printed front wrapper bound in (extremities lightly rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY TO A.L. FORD (1843-1924, preliminary blank inscribed 'A.L. Ford, Esq,/30 Nov., 1899./Copy no. 15.'; tipped-in letter from the author to Ford, dated 12, Morella Road, Wandsworth Common, London S.W., 30 Nov., 1899, asking him: 'Will you kindly accept the enclosed? As you collect cricket litertature it may, perhaps, interest you ....').
COPY NO. 15 OF ONLY 20 COPIES ISSUED. Ashley-Cooper could not have chosen a more long-standing collector to be the recipient of this copy. As Rosenwater observes, Ford 'began collecting seriously as a youth in his teens in 1861, and maintained his hobby for over 60 years without his interest ever flaggng' (Great Collectors of the Past, 1976, p. 5). This was the first in a series of seven limited edition booklets compiled by 'the Herodotus of cricket', each small and compact and with tiny print bursting with every conceivable statistic. All first appeared serially in the weekly magazine, Cricket, this issue coming out in four parts, 27 September-21 December 1899. C.L. Townsend with nine and K.S. Ranjitsinhji with eight were the batsmen who scored most centuries that summer, followed by Abel, Hayward and R.M. Poore with a total of seven. Victor Trumper, on his first tour, is among thirteen batsmen with individual scores of over 200. Two bowlers took 10 wickets in an innings, Bland with 10 for 48, Sussex v Kent, and W.P. Howell with 10 for 28, Australia v Surrey. FINE COPY. Wynne-Thomas p. 18; Padwick 920.