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WILLIAM LAMBERT
The Cricketer's Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. [and 2 others], Derby: Mozely, [1821?]. 12mo., folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved tail-piece (frontispiece repaired along one fold on verso, with tear along line of second fold and clean tear at inner margin, frontispiece and title spotted, without the final advertisement leaf), original printed wrappers (rebacked in cloth, soiled).
Seventh edition, noticeably reduced in size from those published earlier. A woodcut tail-piece is added at the end of the introduction, but the vignette has been dropped from the over-crowded title-page. The frontispiece is in an altered state with birds flying by the castle. Allen 17; Padwick 383.
The Cricketer's Guide: or, A Concise Treatise on the Noble Game of Cricket
Lewes: Sussex Press, J. Baxter, London: Baldwin and Co. [and 2 others], Derby: Mozely, [1821?]. 12mo., folding engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved tail-piece (frontispiece repaired along one fold on verso, with tear along line of second fold and clean tear at inner margin, frontispiece and title spotted, without the final advertisement leaf), original printed wrappers (rebacked in cloth, soiled).
Seventh edition, noticeably reduced in size from those published earlier. A woodcut tail-piece is added at the end of the introduction, but the vignette has been dropped from the over-crowded title-page. The frontispiece is in an altered state with birds flying by the castle. Allen 17; Padwick 383.
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