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LAMBERT, William. Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules for the playing the Noble Game of Cricket with its laws corrected. Sussex Press, Lewes: J. Baxter; London: Baldwin and Co., Sherwood and Co. and Longman and Co; Derby: Mozley; and by all booksellers, [c.1824 –1827] [on paper watermarked 1824]. 12° (131 x 81mm). 48p., folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. Original green paper covers, with corners cut away, laid down on modern stiffened black paper wrappers (front cover with small stain at bottom corner). Provenance: purchased from Chris Saunders in 1992.
FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF THE TENTH EDITION. This edition is smaller in page size and length than previous ones; the folding engraved frontispiece appears to have been cropped at the upper margin, presumably by the printer to make it fit within the reduced covers. The title of the work has altered for a second time, but the cricketing vignette has returned. The final page contains an advertisement for Baxter’s farmers’ accounts book and the history of Lewes published in the interim. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 10th (illustrates this copy); Padwick 383. Sold with Roger Hancock, A Handbook for William Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide (Brighton, 2006).
FRESH, CLEAN COPY OF THE TENTH EDITION. This edition is smaller in page size and length than previous ones; the folding engraved frontispiece appears to have been cropped at the upper margin, presumably by the printer to make it fit within the reduced covers. The title of the work has altered for a second time, but the cricketing vignette has returned. The final page contains an advertisement for Baxter’s farmers’ accounts book and the history of Lewes published in the interim. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 10th (illustrates this copy); Padwick 383. Sold with Roger Hancock, A Handbook for William Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide (Brighton, 2006).
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