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

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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