![[SAUNDERS, D.W. AND G.G.L. SMITH]. 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° (181 x 112mm). 223,[1]pp. Mounted photograph of the team. (Title spotted, occasional spotting of text, corner crease on pp. 47-8 and 135-6, light soiling on p. 164). Modern half calf and marbled boards (without wrappers).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0039_000(saunders_dw_and_ggl_smith_cricket_across_the_sea_or_the_wanderings_and115911).jpg?w=1)
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[SAUNDERS, D.W. AND G.G.L. SMITH]. 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° (181 x 112mm). 223,[1]pp. Mounted photograph of the team. (Title spotted, occasional spotting of text, corner crease on pp. 47-8 and 135-6, light soiling on p. 164). Modern half calf and marbled boards (without wrappers).
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS TOUR BOOK, ‘EXCEEDINGLY RARE … BOTH IN ENGLAND AND CANADA’ (Taylor). The Canadian Eleven were mostly drawn from the Toronto Cricket Club and all were born in Canada. After victories against All New York and the Gentlemen of Ireland, the Canadians lost to the Gentlemen of Scotland. In England they experienced mixed fortunes but returned home deeply impressed by the extent to which cricket was part of national life, so much so that the banners commemorating Queen Victoria’s jubilee read ‘fifty not out’. As a player, the co-author Smith used his third name Lindsey. Allen 133: ‘rare’; Goldman 52: ‘seldom met with’; Taylor p. 29; Padwick 5744.
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS TOUR BOOK, ‘EXCEEDINGLY RARE … BOTH IN ENGLAND AND CANADA’ (Taylor). The Canadian Eleven were mostly drawn from the Toronto Cricket Club and all were born in Canada. After victories against All New York and the Gentlemen of Ireland, the Canadians lost to the Gentlemen of Scotland. In England they experienced mixed fortunes but returned home deeply impressed by the extent to which cricket was part of national life, so much so that the banners commemorating Queen Victoria’s jubilee read ‘fifty not out’. As a player, the co-author Smith used his third name Lindsey. Allen 133: ‘rare’; Goldman 52: ‘seldom met with’; Taylor p. 29; Padwick 5744.
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