![LAMBERT, William. Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket with its laws corrected. Sussex Press, Lewes: J. Baxter; London: Joy, Simpkin & Marshall, Sherwood & Co, [1828] [on paper watermarked 1824]. 12° (141 x 89mm). 47pp., folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. (Light spotting to frontispiece and pp. 21-24, ink stain on pp. 45-46). Original printed buff wrappers, modern cloth case.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0073_000(lambert_william_lamberts_cricketers_guide_or_instructions_and_rules_fo120650).jpg?w=1)
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LAMBERT, William. Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide or Instructions and Rules for playing the Noble Game of Cricket with its laws corrected. Sussex Press, Lewes: J. Baxter; London: Joy, Simpkin & Marshall, Sherwood & Co, [1828] [on paper watermarked 1824]. 12° (141 x 89mm). 47pp., folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette. (Light spotting to frontispiece and pp. 21-24, ink stain on pp. 45-46). Original printed buff wrappers, modern cloth case.
‘TWENTIETH’ EDITION. In common with the tenth edition, its small paper size and compact type betrayed the effort to cut costs. Although claiming to be the twentieth edition, this is not in fact the case. The twelfth edition was certainly published some two to four years later and there is no evidence of there ever being any editions from 13 to 19. Its date of 1828 is deduced from the fact that it incorporates the changes to the laws passed on 19 May 1828 and does not incorporate the important alteration in the ‘No Ball’ law passed on 27 July 1829. This is the only edition to be designated as ‘England’s Standard’, the significance of which is unknown. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 20th (illustrates this copy); Padwick 383.
‘TWENTIETH’ EDITION. In common with the tenth edition, its small paper size and compact type betrayed the effort to cut costs. Although claiming to be the twentieth edition, this is not in fact the case. The twelfth edition was certainly published some two to four years later and there is no evidence of there ever being any editions from 13 to 19. Its date of 1828 is deduced from the fact that it incorporates the changes to the laws passed on 19 May 1828 and does not incorporate the important alteration in the ‘No Ball’ law passed on 27 July 1829. This is the only edition to be designated as ‘England’s Standard’, the significance of which is unknown. Allen 17; Goldman p.119; Taylor p.61; Hancock Handbook Edition 20th (illustrates this copy); Padwick 383.
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