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Felix on the Bat: being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat
London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to., hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates, printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes (frontispiece lightly spotted, first plate with spots on image, some browning and staining of plate margins), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges (rebacked in calf, covers soiled, corners bumped). Provenance: Victore H. Prout (ownership inscription, dated 1824) -- Shipton, Cheltenham (bookseller's blind-stamp on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by the batsman, amateur artist, and schoolteacher known as "Felix". The plates in each edition differ in terms of the players' clothing, setting and colours, and are printed by different firms. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix (see front cover illustration of "Forward"), as were the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). Allen 50; Padwick 397.
Felix on the Bat: being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat
London: Baily Brothers, 1845. 4to., hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, 6 hand-coloured and 3 uncoloured plates, printed by C. Graf, wood-engraved vignettes (frontispiece lightly spotted, first plate with spots on image, some browning and staining of plate margins), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt edges (rebacked in calf, covers soiled, corners bumped). Provenance: Victore H. Prout (ownership inscription, dated 1824) -- Shipton, Cheltenham (bookseller's blind-stamp on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of this classic by the batsman, amateur artist, and schoolteacher known as "Felix". The plates in each edition differ in terms of the players' clothing, setting and colours, and are printed by different firms. Although loosely based on the 5 lithographs by G.F. Watts published in 1837, the 6 plates of batting strokes were probably drawn by Felix (see front cover illustration of "Forward"), as were the comic vignettes; the two plates which demonstrate 14 batting stances, some of them showing what not to do, may be the work of either Felix or John Gilbert (see G. Brodribb, Felix on the Bat, 1962, pp. 140-143). Allen 50; Padwick 397.
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