![TAYLOR, Joseph. The Comic Side of Cricket. Detroit: Detroit Athletic Club, [c.1891]. 8° (151 x 93mm). 20pp., 7 plates by C. Browne Calvert. Original pink pictorial boards (rebacked in red cloth in the manner of C.I.S. Wallace but binding detached, small piece torn from front cover with loss to illustration.) Provenance: C. Browne Calvert’s address added in manuscript on front cover – J.N. Pentelow, his gift to: -- C.I.S. Wallace (Wallace’s inscription stating it was Pentelow’s gift in 1913 on inside cover). Goldman p.45; Padwick 6913 (calling for 21pp. but unseen).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0040_000(taylor_joseph_the_comic_side_of_cricket_detroit_detroit_athletic_club115927).jpg?w=1)
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TAYLOR, Joseph. The Comic Side of Cricket. Detroit: Detroit Athletic Club, [c.1891]. 8° (151 x 93mm). 20pp., 7 plates by C. Browne Calvert. Original pink pictorial boards (rebacked in red cloth in the manner of C.I.S. Wallace but binding detached, small piece torn from front cover with loss to illustration.) Provenance: C. Browne Calvert’s address added in manuscript on front cover – J.N. Pentelow, his gift to: -- C.I.S. Wallace (Wallace’s inscription stating it was Pentelow’s gift in 1913 on inside cover). Goldman p.45; Padwick 6913 (calling for 21pp. but unseen).
CHADWICK, Henry (editor). Beadle’s Dime Book of Cricket and Football. New York: Beadle, 1866. 8° (160 x 104mm). 50pp. [in fact 48]. Diagrams. (Light spotting.) Original pictorial orange wrappers (spine worn with losses to lettering, tears at lower corner tips). Second edition of Beadle’s Dime Book of Cricket originally published in 1860 (see Padwick 374), but the first edition to combine cricket with football. The attractive front wrapper illustrates both sports, while the inner rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the 1866 edition of Beadle’s Dime Base-Ball Player. Padwick 413.
LYTTLETON, Edward. International Cricket Guide. New York: Street and Smith, 1891. 8° (177 x 117mm). 63,[1]pp. Illustrations and diagrams. (Browned throughout, title detached and rehinged to cover, contents leaf torn along inner margin and detached.) Original yellow boards, front cover with scene of a match in red (rebacked in green cloth, text block detached). Provenance: C.I.S. Wallace (signature on front pasetdown) -- A.E. Winder (bookplate). A revised edition for the American market of Lyttelton’s Cricket, first published in London in 1890. At 10 cents the cost in boards was the same as that of a paperback. Padwick 449; not in Taylor or Goldman.
CHADWICK, Henry (editor). Beadle’s Dime Book of Cricket and Football. New York: Beadle, 1866. 8° (160 x 104mm). 50pp. [in fact 48]. Diagrams. (Light spotting.) Original pictorial orange wrappers (spine worn with losses to lettering, tears at lower corner tips). Second edition of Beadle’s Dime Book of Cricket originally published in 1860 (see Padwick 374), but the first edition to combine cricket with football. The attractive front wrapper illustrates both sports, while the inner rear wrapper carries an advertisement for the 1866 edition of Beadle’s Dime Base-Ball Player. Padwick 413.
LYTTLETON, Edward. International Cricket Guide. New York: Street and Smith, 1891. 8° (177 x 117mm). 63,[1]pp. Illustrations and diagrams. (Browned throughout, title detached and rehinged to cover, contents leaf torn along inner margin and detached.) Original yellow boards, front cover with scene of a match in red (rebacked in green cloth, text block detached). Provenance: C.I.S. Wallace (signature on front pasetdown) -- A.E. Winder (bookplate). A revised edition for the American market of Lyttelton’s Cricket, first published in London in 1890. At 10 cents the cost in boards was the same as that of a paperback. Padwick 449; not in Taylor or Goldman.
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