![[LILLYWHITE, Frederick William]. Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket. London: Ackermann & Co. and Brighton: W.H. Mason, [1844]. 8° (171x 104mm). 22pp. + advertisement leaf, 8 etched portraits with aquatint, 4 (those of the Gentlemen) folding, printed slip after p.10 giving details of alterations to ‘the law relating to wide balls’. (Some minor spotting to the plates of Lillywhite, Langdon and Mynn.) Original green cloth gilt (rubbed and bumped, some ink marks on covers, front cover with small hole, rear cover with small white stain). Provenance: E.V. Alcock (inscription ‘EV Alcock from [?]JEBS London July’ [1844] on title; annotations to the laws in a contemporary hand, presumably Alcock’s, with the addition of press cuttings) – J. Barry Brown (armorial bookplate) -- John R. Batten (inscription). There is an original 19th-century pen-and-ink caricature drawing of a batsman on the front pastedown.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CSK/2014_CSK_10766_0075_000(lillywhite_frederick_william_lillywhites_illustrated_hand-book_of_cric120730).jpg?w=1)
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[LILLYWHITE, Frederick William]. Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket. London: Ackermann & Co. and Brighton: W.H. Mason, [1844]. 8° (171x 104mm). 22pp. + advertisement leaf, 8 etched portraits with aquatint, 4 (those of the Gentlemen) folding, printed slip after p.10 giving details of alterations to ‘the law relating to wide balls’. (Some minor spotting to the plates of Lillywhite, Langdon and Mynn.) Original green cloth gilt (rubbed and bumped, some ink marks on covers, front cover with small hole, rear cover with small white stain). Provenance: E.V. Alcock (inscription ‘EV Alcock from [?]JEBS London July’ [1844] on title; annotations to the laws in a contemporary hand, presumably Alcock’s, with the addition of press cuttings) – J. Barry Brown (armorial bookplate) -- John R. Batten (inscription). There is an original 19th-century pen-and-ink caricature drawing of a batsman on the front pastedown.
ISSUE WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS, published at 3/ 6d (those with only four portraits costing 2/- and those with one portrait 1/-.) Taylor, as long ago as 1906, described this as ‘a very rare publication’; Goldman in 1937 as ‘very rare indeed’. The four portraits of the gentlemen (Mynn, Kynaston, Langdon and Taylor) are signed by C. Hunt after C.J. Basebe and are all folding. The portraits normally suffer from much spotting. These are in excellent condition. The annotations to the laws are extensive and Alcock's manuscript note on the title-page states, that they have been ‘altered and revised 2nd June 1845'. Allen 45; Goldman p.126; Taylor p.66; Padwick 386.
ISSUE WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS, published at 3/ 6d (those with only four portraits costing 2/- and those with one portrait 1/-.) Taylor, as long ago as 1906, described this as ‘a very rare publication’; Goldman in 1937 as ‘very rare indeed’. The four portraits of the gentlemen (Mynn, Kynaston, Langdon and Taylor) are signed by C. Hunt after C.J. Basebe and are all folding. The portraits normally suffer from much spotting. These are in excellent condition. The annotations to the laws are extensive and Alcock's manuscript note on the title-page states, that they have been ‘altered and revised 2nd June 1845'. Allen 45; Goldman p.126; Taylor p.66; Padwick 386.
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