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LILLYWHITE, Frederick William (1792-1854). Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket. London: Ackermann & Co. and Brighton: W.H. Mason, [1844].
8° (175 x 101mm). 8 etched portraits with aquatint, 4 folding. (Heavy spotting to plate of Box, light spotting elsewhere, plate of Pilch slightly cropped at foot, without printed slip after p.10 giving details of alterations to ‘the law relating to wide balls’.) Original green cloth gilt (small mark on front cover and bump to corner).
ISSUE WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS, published at 3/6d (those with only four portraits cost 2/- and those with one portrait 1/-.). The four folding portraits of gentlemen (Mynn, Kynaston, Langdon and Taylor) are signed by C. Hunt after C.J. Basebe. Taylor, as long ago as 1906, described this as ‘a very rare publication’. The plates often suffer from spotting. Allen 45; Taylor p.66; Padwick 386.
8° (175 x 101mm). 8 etched portraits with aquatint, 4 folding. (Heavy spotting to plate of Box, light spotting elsewhere, plate of Pilch slightly cropped at foot, without printed slip after p.10 giving details of alterations to ‘the law relating to wide balls’.) Original green cloth gilt (small mark on front cover and bump to corner).
ISSUE WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS, published at 3/6d (those with only four portraits cost 2/- and those with one portrait 1/-.). The four folding portraits of gentlemen (Mynn, Kynaston, Langdon and Taylor) are signed by C. Hunt after C.J. Basebe. Taylor, as long ago as 1906, described this as ‘a very rare publication’. The plates often suffer from spotting. Allen 45; Taylor p.66; Padwick 386.
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