CRICKETERS 1890's -- A white linen tablecloth with the embroidered signatures of approximately 80 cricketers, including W.G. Grace, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris, A.C. Maclaren, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, W.W. Read, Charles Macartney, A.E. Stoddart, F. Stanley Jackson and William Lloyd Murdoch, signed in ink: "Miss Murdoch. 5 June 93" -- ALCOCK, Charles William (editor). Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895 , London: Hudson & Kearns and "News of the World," 1895, 2°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, large half tone portraits (lacking title-page and index, some soiling), contemporary half calf, stamped in gilt: "M. Murdoch" on upper cover (extremities rubbed). [Padwick 56].

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CRICKETERS 1890's -- A white linen tablecloth with the embroidered signatures of approximately 80 cricketers, including W.G. Grace, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris, A.C. Maclaren, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, W.W. Read, Charles Macartney, A.E. Stoddart, F. Stanley Jackson and William Lloyd Murdoch, signed in ink: "Miss Murdoch. 5 June 93" -- ALCOCK, Charles William (editor). Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds 1895 , London: Hudson & Kearns and "News of the World," 1895, 2°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, large half tone portraits (lacking title-page and index, some soiling), contemporary half calf, stamped in gilt: "M. Murdoch" on upper cover (extremities rubbed). [Padwick 56].
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Provenance

According to information supplied by the vendor, Miss Murdoch was the daughter of William Lloyd Murdoch (1854-1911) who not only captained Australia on the tours of 1880, 1882, 1884 and 1890, but also led Sussex from 1893 to 1899. The original signatures are thought to have been collected during his captaincy of Sussex and then embroidered by his daughter.

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