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WILLIAM LAMBERT
The Cricketers' Guide: or A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket. Sussex Press, Lewes: printed and sold by J. Baxter, Derby: Mozley, London: Langley and Co. [and others], [1819?]. 12mo (151 x 95mm). 62p., folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette, full-page diagram. (Light soiling to frontispiece and title, some browning, a few stains at upper margin.) Contemporary half calf and brown marbled boards, polished gilt spine (lightly rubbed).
Fifth edition of this well-known and long popular successor to Boxall's Rules and Instructions, without the inserted slip noting 'alterations since printing p. 55'. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Padwick 383.
The Cricketers' Guide: or A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket. Sussex Press, Lewes: printed and sold by J. Baxter, Derby: Mozley, London: Langley and Co. [and others], [1819?]. 12mo (151 x 95mm). 62p., folding engraved frontispiece, woodcut title vignette, full-page diagram. (Light soiling to frontispiece and title, some browning, a few stains at upper margin.) Contemporary half calf and brown marbled boards, polished gilt spine (lightly rubbed).
Fifth edition of this well-known and long popular successor to Boxall's Rules and Instructions, without the inserted slip noting 'alterations since printing p. 55'. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Padwick 383.