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WILLIAM NORTH
A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches played by the Nottingham Old Cricket Club, from 1771 to 1829 inclusive. Nottingham: R. Sutton, 1830. 8vo (168 x 99mm). (Title soiled and stained, final leaf soiled and crease-marked on verso.) Later hard-grained black morocco for R.S. Holmes, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt (extremities rubbed, no wrappers). Provenance: Robert Stratten Holmes (1850-1933, binding) -- Julien Cahn.
THE EARLIEST COMPILATION ON ANY NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CLUB, modelled on Bentley's Correct Account of the Cricket Matches played by the Mary-le-bone Club (1823). An addendum was printed in 1836. North was first a schoolmaster and later an Inspector of Corn Returns. Allen 23; Padwick 2492.
A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches played by the Nottingham Old Cricket Club, from 1771 to 1829 inclusive. Nottingham: R. Sutton, 1830. 8vo (168 x 99mm). (Title soiled and stained, final leaf soiled and crease-marked on verso.) Later hard-grained black morocco for R.S. Holmes, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt (extremities rubbed, no wrappers). Provenance: Robert Stratten Holmes (1850-1933, binding) -- Julien Cahn.
THE EARLIEST COMPILATION ON ANY NOTTINGHAMSHIRE CLUB, modelled on Bentley's Correct Account of the Cricket Matches played by the Mary-le-bone Club (1823). An addendum was printed in 1836. North was first a schoolmaster and later an Inspector of Corn Returns. Allen 23; Padwick 2492.