CLARK, William Mark (publisher). Clark's Cricketer's Handbook. London: William Mark Clark, [ca. 1859]. 12° (130 x 77mm). 50pp. + 4pp. advertisements. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece of a match at Lord's (torn at bottom margin, laid down.) Uncut in mid-20th-century blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 26).
CLARK, William Mark (publisher). Clark's Cricketer's Handbook. London: William Mark Clark, [ca. 1859]. 12° (130 x 77mm). 50pp. + 4pp. advertisements. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece of a match at Lord's (torn at bottom margin, laid down.) Uncut in mid-20th-century blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 26).

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CLARK, William Mark (publisher). Clark's Cricketer's Handbook. London: William Mark Clark, [ca. 1859]. 12° (130 x 77mm). 50pp. + 4pp. advertisements. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece of a match at Lord's (torn at bottom margin, laid down.) Uncut in mid-20th-century blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine. Provenance: Irving Rosenwater (Collection Catalogue I, 26).

A RARE POCKET GUIDE TO CRICKET. 'Fifteenth' edition according to the title-page, though probably the last of only five editions, first published c. 1845. Padwick 378.

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