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A HISTORY OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CRICKET CLUB 1820-1901

A HISTORY OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CRICKET CLUB 1820-1901

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A comprehensive study of cricket at the university during the period, complete with match scores, statistical appendices and an index of every player to have turned out for the XI.

Thick & large 8vo. xi + 562pp. Frontispiece (showing a match in progress on Parker's Piece, from the Rischgitz Collection), 6 plates. Original light blue cloth with Cambridge CC insignia embossed to upper board in gilt, gilt title to spine. Very good condition.

Date
1901
Publisher
William Blackwood
Author
William Justice FORD

£25.00 (Code: 84896)

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