WISDEN

Lot 200
14.12.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 4 032
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ID 870712
Lot 200 | WISDEN
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£ 2 500 – 3 500
WISDEN

Cricketers’ Almanack for 1916, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916.

Hardback copy of the 53rd edition, 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. Whereas the 1913 edition had been a colossal 849 pages, the total in the face of war drops to 299, the lowest since 1882. The 1916 edition famously records the death of W.G. Grace, giving full statistics of his career. The suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915 add to the sense of catastrophe. As one historian of the almanack remarks 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (Robert Winder, The Little Wonder, 2013, p. 116).



Octavo (163 x 100mm). (Internally a fine, clean copy.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed yellow wrappers used as endpapers (gilt tarnished on spine and partially on upper cover, covers rubbed with some faint soiling and staining, extremities rubbed, joints, spine ends and corners more heavily).





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