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Cricket » Cricket Books » Cricket History » CRICKET SCORES, NOTES, &C. FROM 1730-1773 WRITTEN AS REPORTED IN THE DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS ...

CRICKET SCORES, NOTES, &C. FROM 1730-1773 WRITTEN AS REPORTED IN THE DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS ...

CRICKET SCORES, NOTES, &C. FROM 1730-1773 WRITTEN AS REPORTED IN THE DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS ...

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Accounts of 18th century cricket matches culled from newspapers held in the British Library, plus two poems, originally published in 1773, on the Kent v Surrey match at Bourne Paddock in that year.

8vo. xiv + 126pp. + [2] blanks. Frontispiece (tissue-guard), depicting cricket played near White Conduit Fields in London in 1787. Original maroon cloth, title in gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate of the well-known cricket collector Charles Pratt Green. A very good copy.

Date
1899
Publisher
William Blackwood
Author
Henry Thomas WAGHORN

£50.00 (Code: 75702)

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