![[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).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0274_000(saunders_dyce_willcocks_and_george_lindsey_cricket_across_the_sea_or_t012847).jpg?w=1)
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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.
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.