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[SAUNDERS, Dyce Willcocks and George LINDSEY]. Cricket across the Sea: or The Wanderings and Matches of the Gentlemen of Canada 1887 ... by two of the vagrants. Toronto: James Murray, 1887. 8° (195 x 120mm). Mounted photographic plate. (Title tattered at foremargin, plate faded, some spotting to initial leaves, last quire with tear at bottom margin.) Original printed wrappers preserved in modern calf-backed marbled boards (front wrapper worn and with adhesive tape repairs, blank verso of final leaf adhering to back wrapper). Provenance: presentation copy, inside front wrapper inscribed: '"Cricket" with compliments of authors G.G.S. Lindsey and D.W. Saunders' -- B.J. Wakley (label).
[SAUNDERS, Dyce Willcocks and George LINDSEY]. Cricket across the Sea: or The Wanderings and Matches of the Gentlemen of Canada 1887 ... by two of the vagrants. Toronto: James Murray, 1887. 8° (195 x 120mm). Mounted photographic plate. (Title tattered at foremargin, plate faded, some spotting to initial leaves, last quire with tear at bottom margin.) Original printed wrappers preserved in modern calf-backed marbled boards (front wrapper worn and with adhesive tape repairs, blank verso of final leaf adhering to back wrapper). Provenance: presentation copy, inside front wrapper inscribed: '"Cricket" with compliments of authors G.G.S. Lindsey and D.W. Saunders' -- B.J. Wakley (label).

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[SAUNDERS, Dyce Willcocks and George LINDSEY]. Cricket across the Sea: or The Wanderings and Matches of the Gentlemen of Canada 1887 ... by two of the vagrants. Toronto: James Murray, 1887. 8° (195 x 120mm). Mounted photographic plate. (Title tattered at foremargin, plate faded, some spotting to initial leaves, last quire with tear at bottom margin.) Original printed wrappers preserved in modern calf-backed marbled boards (front wrapper worn and with adhesive tape repairs, blank verso of final leaf adhering to back wrapper). Provenance: presentation copy, inside front wrapper inscribed: '"Cricket" with compliments of authors G.G.S. Lindsey and D.W. Saunders' -- B.J. Wakley (label).

PRESENTATION COPY OF THIS ELUSIVE WORK. The visit of the Canadian Eleven to the UK coincided with Queen Victoria's jubilee. The writers discovered how deep a part cricket played in national life when they saw that the banners commemorating it read 'fifty not out'. Padwick 5744.