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WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1875, edited by W.H. Knight. London: John Wisden and Co., 1875. 8° (150 x 93mm). 214pp. (Title with light spotting and heavier stain affecting two words, also with lamination along inner margin, last three leaves of text with similar repair, some margins cut close, without final advertisement leaf.) Modern brown buckram, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges (without wrappers).
TWELFTH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of 214 pages. The almanack took a small side step from cricket to include a page on ‘The American Base Ball Players in England … a finely-framed, powerful set of men' who impress with their ‘splendid long-distance throwing and truly magnificent out-fielding’ (p. 207). Under the heading ‘The Largest and Smallest Innings scored in 1874’, comes an innings of 0 by Nether Stowey. The results of the three cricket tours to Australia are compared, the most recent being by W.G. Grace and his team in 1873-74. ‘THE RAREST OF ALL EDITIONS, followed in scarcity by the first edition in 1864’ (Rice and Renshaw).
TWELFTH EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of 214 pages. The almanack took a small side step from cricket to include a page on ‘The American Base Ball Players in England … a finely-framed, powerful set of men' who impress with their ‘splendid long-distance throwing and truly magnificent out-fielding’ (p. 207). Under the heading ‘The Largest and Smallest Innings scored in 1874’, comes an innings of 0 by Nether Stowey. The results of the three cricket tours to Australia are compared, the most recent being by W.G. Grace and his team in 1873-74. ‘THE RAREST OF ALL EDITIONS, followed in scarcity by the first edition in 1864’ (Rice and Renshaw).
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