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NICHOLAS WANOSTROCHT
Felix on the Bat: being a Scientific Inquiry into the Use of the Cricket Bat. London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to (239 x 184mm), hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes. (Most plates affected by spotting and marginal staining, block split at C1.) Original blind-stamped green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges (some spotting and discolouring).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by 'Felix' who combined the roles of batsman, amateur artist and schoolmaster. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 hand-coloured plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix, in common with the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). In each of the three editions the plates have slight variations, and are printed by different firms. Allen 50; Goldman p. 88: 'a necessity in every cricket collection'; Padwick 397.
Felix on the Bat: being a Scientific Inquiry into the Use of the Cricket Bat. London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to (239 x 184mm), hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes. (Most plates affected by spotting and marginal staining, block split at C1.) Original blind-stamped green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges (some spotting and discolouring).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by 'Felix' who combined the roles of batsman, amateur artist and schoolmaster. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 hand-coloured plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix, in common with the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). In each of the three editions the plates have slight variations, and are printed by different firms. Allen 50; Goldman p. 88: 'a necessity in every cricket collection'; Padwick 397.