ID 381372
Los 164 | John Wisden (1826-1884)
Schätzwert
£ 3 000 – 5 000
Fourth edition. An exceptionally clean copy, in the original wrappers. W.H. Crockford of Greenwich is acknowledged as printer on the title verso. The sudden emergence of W.G. Grace as a genius with the bat is made clear in a statistical table of ‘Scorers of 1000 (or more) runs in 1866' (p. 152). This shows the young cricketer at the top with a total of 2,168 runs scored in 33 matches, and a highest score of 224 not out. This was in only his second season of top-flight cricket. After him follow C.F. Buller and Henry Jupp with 1647 and 1605 runs a piece. There is no equivalent table for bowlers of prowess, though Wisden suggests that any bowler might benefit from his ‘Patent Catapulta,’ a bowling machine pictured on the final page, and marking the first use of any illustration in the almanack.
Octavo (158 x 101mm). [4], 159, [1]pp. Wood-engraved advertisement (leaves H3-4 with slight adhesion, final quire with some uneven dust-soiling). Original printed wrappers (rebacked with some very small associated loss to printed border on front wrapper, light soiling to both wrappers).
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