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‘The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers, August & September 1886’. Charles Guy Austin Wyatt and Lawrence R. Fyfe. The Argosy Press, Demerara, West Indies 1887. 92pp. Mounted real sepia photograph of the team at the final match of the tour v Staten Island as frontispiece. Original pale blue stiffened card covers with replacement green cloth spine and gilt title to spine. The front board title reads ‘The Tour of the West Indian Cricketers. Their Diary with details of matches played and a photograph of the team 1886’. The book describes the tour to Canada and the United States of America by a team of West Indian Gentlemen (all white) drawn from Jamaica, Demerara and Barbados and was the first by a West Indian team. The Captain, Fyfe, contributes the introduction and the rest of the book is based on Wyatt’s diary of the tour. The team played thirteen matches (not first-class), winning six, losing five and drawing two. Ownership signature in ink to front cover of W. Farquharson who was a member of the touring party and therefore probably his personal copy. Padwick 5520. Real frontispiece photograph in very good condition. Some wear and staining to original boards, internally in very good condition. A rare early West Indian tour book.