Wisden

Lot 199
30.07.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 381407
Lot 199 | Wisden
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£ 2 600 – 3 000
WISDEN – The Cricketers' Almanack for 1935 [-1939]. London. John Wisden & Co., 1935 [-1939].

5 editions, with the 1938 containing the first appearance of the famous Ravilious wood-engraving of the top-hatted batsman and wicketkeeper. It was decided that for its 75th edition, Wisden should be modernised in appearance. Robert Harling, the typographer, was tasked to do the job, and somehow married the 'Wild West letterpress of the title with Eric Ravilious' wood-engraving. 'In one sense [the illustration] pushed against the modernising premise of the makeover ... But the Victorian image showed that the lineage of the game still filled Wisden’s arteries' (Little Wonder). Both aspects of the design have been retained ever since, with the exception of 2003, when Ravilious' illustration was relegated to the spine in favour of Michael Vaughan on the front cover. This created much consternation amongst loyal readers, and the wood-engraving was reinstated to the front cover, albeit in heavily reduced size.

5 volumes, octavo (161 x 98mm), vols 1935-1937 each with a plate, the others with text illustrations, all bound in original publisher’s hardback cloth gilt, vols 1935-1937 with printed yellow endpapers (1935, 1937 and 1938 in fine condition, the others with some light discolouration of covers, 1939 with small stain at corner just into text affecting first quarter of text block).
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