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LAWS OF CRICKET -- The London Chronicle. No. 5119. From Saturday, July 25, to Tuesday, July 28, 1789. London: T. Wilkie, 1789.
4º (290 x 220mm). 4ll. Printed in three columns. (A few stains on first leaf.) 20th-century blue cloth portfolio, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: [John Arlott] -- A.E. Winder (bookplate).
A RARE PRINTING OF THE LAWS, newly codified by the MCC, 30 May 1788. The laws of the increasingly popular game of cricket were disseminated in pamphlet form, as broadsides, on handkerchiefs, and as here in news print. To buy this issue of the London Chronicle, describing the way to play along with latest terrifying events of the French Revolution, would have cost three pence. The headline 'Cricket' occurs in the middle column of the third page. That a game 'so fashionable, and at all times so creditable and manly,' should 'receive a check from the variable state of the weather' is regretted. However, the copywriter insists that a period when 'frequent showers ... are preventing cricket from being played' offers a good opportunity 'for inexperienced batsmen and bowlers' to study the 'Laws of the Game.' The text of the laws follows, occupying the rest of column two and part of column three, with a short final section on 'Betts'. A run is still described as 'a notch', and the batsman is consistently referred to as 'the striker'. See R.S. Rait Kerr, Laws of Cricket, pp. 72-73.
4º (290 x 220mm). 4ll. Printed in three columns. (A few stains on first leaf.) 20th-century blue cloth portfolio, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: [John Arlott] -- A.E. Winder (bookplate).
A RARE PRINTING OF THE LAWS, newly codified by the MCC, 30 May 1788. The laws of the increasingly popular game of cricket were disseminated in pamphlet form, as broadsides, on handkerchiefs, and as here in news print. To buy this issue of the London Chronicle, describing the way to play along with latest terrifying events of the French Revolution, would have cost three pence. The headline 'Cricket' occurs in the middle column of the third page. That a game 'so fashionable, and at all times so creditable and manly,' should 'receive a check from the variable state of the weather' is regretted. However, the copywriter insists that a period when 'frequent showers ... are preventing cricket from being played' offers a good opportunity 'for inexperienced batsmen and bowlers' to study the 'Laws of the Game.' The text of the laws follows, occupying the rest of column two and part of column three, with a short final section on 'Betts'. A run is still described as 'a notch', and the batsman is consistently referred to as 'the striker'. See R.S. Rait Kerr, Laws of Cricket, pp. 72-73.
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