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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Cricket’. W. Mulier. Haarlem 1897. ‘Geillustreed door den schrijver [Illustrated by the author]’. Original hardback in blue cloth with colour pictorial illustration of a player/ umpire in striped blazer giving the batsman his guard, title in gilt to spine. xii, 247pp. Illustrated. Written in Dutch, the title comprises a history of the game’s growth and development, and is the first known historical and instructional book in Dutch. Padwick 457. Minor wear to board extremities, otherwise a nice copy in good/ very good condition.