WISDEN

Los 196
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Los 196 | WISDEN
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Cricketers' Almanack for 1896, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1896.

An extremely fine copy of the first edition to be bound in hardback, the 33rd edition, complete with the photographic portrait of W.G. Grace. Published at 2/- the hardback was double the price of a paper bound copy; the bright display of gilt will have attracted eyes to shop windows, while covers made to endure also avoided the need for rebinding. The photographic plate, hitherto split between five or more players, is devoted to W.G. Grace, the subject of a long feature article. A.C. Maclaren’s feats in 1895 are prominently reported, and the triumphs of Stoddart’s team in Australia make for uplifting reading.



Octavo (166 x 105mm). Mounted photographic plate within printed border, lxxvi, [2], 418, [28]pp. (tiny insignificant marginal nick to title, plate mount lightly creased and lightly spotted but the photograph itself unaffected, just the faintest of browning to the extreme margins of the text block, otherwise a fine, clean copy, one leaf of ads at end with a very short marginal tear into image but without loss). Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original printed yellow wrappers used as endpapers (just extremities faintly rubbed, tiny split without loss adjacent of date on spine).





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