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‘Hampstead Cricket Club. A Record of the Year 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Privately printed for the members of the Hampstead Cricket Club 1901. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to front, original card wrappers retained. Comprises 71pp of match scores, statistics etc. with references to F.R. Spofforth and A.E. Stoddart etc. Annotation in pencil to title page ‘Presentation copy to “Country Vicar”, and dedication in ink, ‘R.H. Hodgson, Esq., With the best wishes of F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. Padwick 2362. A scarce and nicely signed copy in very good condition.

Writing under the pseudonym of ‘Country Vicar’, Randolph Llewellyn Hodgson contributed for over twenty years to The Cricketer magazine and published four cricket titles about his reminiscences of the cricket he had played and watched at village, club and county level