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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The Cricketer’s Hand-book containing The Origin of the Game, Remarks on Recent Alterations...’. New Edition. Robert Tyas, London 1841. Bound in later red cloth, gilt title to spine, original maroon cloth wrappers retained with gilt title and figure of a batsman to front, gilt to all edges. Frontispiece engraving of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside original front wrapper, and of E.D.R. Eagar to inside later cover. Padwick 377. A very good copy of an early manual on the game.