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WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1867. London: John Wisden, 1867. 8° (155 x 98mm). (Title with a few spots and small area of paper adhesion at one corner, small fragments from cover also adhering to verso of final leaf, light marginal spotting to about a dozen leaves.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges.
Fourth edition. At 159 pages it was shorter than the previous one, yet it extended the reporting from county and national sides to a colourful patchwork of lesser teams, listed on the title-page as 'Anomalies, Butterflies, Cambridge University, Civil Service, Free Foresters, Gravesend and Milton, Incogniti, I Zingari, Kensington Park, Longsight, Oxford University, Quidnuncs, Royal Artillery, Southgate and Upper Tooting.' SCARCE.
Fourth edition. At 159 pages it was shorter than the previous one, yet it extended the reporting from county and national sides to a colourful patchwork of lesser teams, listed on the title-page as 'Anomalies, Butterflies, Cambridge University, Civil Service, Free Foresters, Gravesend and Milton, Incogniti, I Zingari, Kensington Park, Longsight, Oxford University, Quidnuncs, Royal Artillery, Southgate and Upper Tooting.' SCARCE.
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