cricketers manual containing brief review von bat (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 5th Edition. A quite fair, yet largely fragile, copy of this classic from the 1840s/'50s. The title continues . . . with the Laws appertaining thereto, as revised by The Marylebone Club, up to the Present Time; Rules for the Formation of Clubs; together with a fund of useful and requisite information. Small size (100mm wide X 133mm high. 128 pages. The sketches of Alfred Mynn and Fuller Pilch are particularly interesting. This is the 5th Edition of 1851. See an accompanying image for the Contents page. Some soiling and discolouration to front and rear covers, and to spine; the front free end paper and the title page each have a previous owner's catalogue reference, sadly in pen; some marks, foxing or otherwise, internally; binding splits showing around title and contents page, and between pages 90-91 and 104-105; some pages are quite or very loose, especially the title page, the preface page, the batch of pages 91-104. The gilt on the edges of the text block is surprisingly good. Still a collectable item.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 110 pages (+ adverts), a very good hardback, professionally rebound with the original covers being laid down to the 'new' binding and the spine having matching cloth.

Publisher's original limp card wrap covered in maroon cloth, gilt title and author lettering to the upper panel, symmetrical embossed pattern to both covers, all page edges gilt, pale lemon end papers. 12 mo. 5¼'' x 4''. Contains 110 [16 catalogue] [i] printed pages of text. Two small contemporary booksellers tickets to the end papers, fountain ink name 'J. W. Rimington Wilson', to the inside front cover, spine and front cover faded to russet brown and in Very Good complete and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Cricket].

5 x 3.75, limp embossed cloth, 110 pp + ads for cricket-related goods and services, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends chipped, spine with horizontal tear and small hole, rear inner hinge cracked, contents toned with some scattered spotting. Early book on cricket.

Includes a short history of cricket, laws of the game, a list of principal grounds and clubs, cricket songs and biographies of Mynn and Pilch. "A comprehensive little volume, and stored with good stuff for the patrons of the bat, ball, and wicket". 5th edition. 12mo. 110pp + many advert pages. Original brown cloth covers with gilt title to front and gilt to pages edges. The boards are rubbed and marked but internally the book is still in very good condition.

Includes a short history of cricket, laws of the game, a list of principal grounds and clubs, cricket songs and biographies of Mynn and Pilch. "A comprehensive little volume, and stored with good stuff for the patrons of the bat, ball, and wicket". 5th edition. 12mo. 110pp + many advert pages. Original brown cloth covers with gilt title to front and gilt to pages edges. Originally purchased from WH Smith on The Strand. A very good copy.