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18899545Bristol: J Arrowsmith 1889. 1st Edition. . Book Book Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Bristol: J Arrowsmith 1889. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. 1889 assumed publication date. Unnumbered pages believed complete. Pocket sized softback. No back present front cover is separated and missing outside 1/4" all way around. Spine card heavily torn. Thread-bound. The final leaf recto: Gloucestershire V Kent August 1889 and verso Batting Averages in matches against Kent Lancashire Middlesex Nottingham Surrey Sussex and Yorkshire. Internally tight and unmarked. Photographs on request. Bristol: J Arrowsmith paperback
1893304054Adelaide 1893. Silver prints measuring 4-5/8 x 5-3/4 in. Mounted on archival board. Very good. Silver prints measuring 4-5/8 x 5-3/4 in. A lovely set of pictures: the first being a portrait of the team showing thirteen women in uniform and hats with bats and ball front and centre. The second image is a shot of a ladies match in progress the umpire seemingly signalling a no ball.<br/><br/>On the verso of each is inscribed "Ladies Cricket Team 93" and then "Ladies Cricket Match Adelaide." These images of some interest as they preceed the formation of the first women's cricket league in Australia in 1894 under the direction of Lily Poulett-Harris. unknown books
188053817- Une feuille 19 x 28 cm. Rousseurs.
185412798Leeds; Webb Millington & Co. c. 1854 1854. Octavo pamphlet in paper wraps. 8 unsigned pages of captioned hand-coloured woodcuts inner forme blank. Golden yellow covers; title and vignette within border to upper cover; advertisements to lower cover. Date from gift inscription to first page. Covers scuffed and rubbed; small marginal tear to foredge of contents continues to covers; spine re-stitched. Small numeral in ink to second page. A rare children's book from a prolific Yorkshire printer and publisher. Eight illustrations depict various games played by children at a birthday paper including marbles cricket 'shuttlecock' and a now obscure bat-sport known as 'trap-bat and ball'. As an ancestor to cricket trap-bat involves a batsman with a paddle-shaped bat hitting a walnut-sized ball called a 'knurr' from a fixed position 'the trap'. Webb Millington & Co. were a an Otley-based printer of chapbooks toy books and jobbing ephemera operative from c. 1832-1882. Publishing through London agents such as Dean and Son they produced a variety of juvenilia from 'stock blocks'. Much of their output is now rare as the factory was destroyed in a fire in 1882. A record of sporting cousins to cricket the illustrations in this book are an exceedingly rare depiction of provincial English bat-sports. COPAC and Worldcat do not locate any copies world-wide. We locate no records of this volume going through auction and find one record only of any book in the Uncle Tom's Treasury series. Leeds; Webb, Millington & Co. [c. 1854] paperback
187820325London: Vanity Fair 1878. Fred Spofforth 1853 - 1926 the player also known as "The Demon Bowler" was arguably the Australian cricket teams' finest pace bowler of the 19th century. Spofforth was the first bowler to take 50 test wickets and the first to take a test hat trick on January 2 1879 where a bowler takes three wickets in consecutive deliveries. Published on July 13 1878. Color chromolithograph 10 x 14 1/2". Sml. crease near the title otherwise very good condition. Vanity Fair unknown
187428059Sydney: Town and Country Journal 1874. Very good condition. 6 portraits of members of the Victoria State cricket team: Cooper Cosstick Gibson Carr Laughnan Conway published in the Town and Country Journal. Woodcut with modern color. 7 x 5 1/2" on newspaper 11 1/2 x 8". Clean on trimmed newspaper page slt ruffled at top margin not affecting image. Town and Country Journal unknown
1877biblio358London: Vanity Fair june 9 1877. Fine. <p>Chromolithography 265x395mm original proof impression Like new a small tear of 2 cm in the lower margin</p><p><br /> <em>“The second versions of the Vanity Fair caricatures are the proof prints or proofs before lettering First versions are the original watercolors; third versions are the widely available weekly/album prints  Produced to verify the colours and lines of the lithograph no more than twenty copies were printed </em><strong>Not true many more than that</strong><em> These prints have no captions or dates or other descriptive type and the magazine bound them in numbered albums in green leather with gilt tooling They were offered for sale and also awarded as prizes in the magazine’s acrostic contests At the front of each volume is a printed note from Vanity Fair giving the number of the proof volume and the numbered volume in the series </em><strong>However these volumes were "broken" to sell individually and one never sees the complete volume </strong><em>The quality of the colours in the proof prints their clarity of line and detail and their scarcity make them of considerable interest to the collectorâ€<br /> <br /> </em>Roy T Matthews and Peter Mellini <em>In “Vanity Fairâ€</em> Berkeley: University of California Press 1982 203</p> Vanity Fair hardcover