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Exceedingly rare copy.This is the deluxe subscribers edition of which 148 were produced.A lst of the subcribers is at the rear,Lords,Barons,Generals,Dukes,Earls,this is the large paper edition.Now housed in green cloth slip case,3/4 leather bindings with leather corners,soft velvet like cloth corners with gold titles to spine and front cover,and gold stamp of a cricketer.Bevelled boards,cloth is a little marked,cover has been professionally repaired (not obvious) and new paste downs and blank prelims added.The block is sound and tight,no names or stamps,a lovely copy.Illustrated with 80 portraits of eminent cricketers,pages untrimmed,some patches of toning on some pages. Richard Daft (1835-1900) was an English cricketer. He was one of the best batsmen of his day, the peak of his first-class career (which lasted from 1858 to 1891) being the 1860s and early 1870s. He appeared in only a handful of matches after 1880. Most of his major cricket was played for Nottinghamshire and the All England Eleven, and he captained the former side from 1871 to 1880. The photographs include, W G. Grace; John Wisden; Tom Box; Julius Caesar; James Grundy; Alfred Mynn; William Clarke; J. J. Ferris; C. T. B. Turner; Thomas Lockyer; A. J. Webbe; English Team to America, 1859; English Team to Australia, 1864; etc.Lovely rare copy. Seller Inventory # 000401
Bibliographic Details
Title: KINGS OF CRICKET
Publisher: Tillotson and Son
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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