WILLIAM DENISON Cricket. Sketches of the Players . London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann R. Dark [and others], 1846. 12mo. (6¾ x 4in; 176 x 103mm) (light spotting on title), contemporary blue calf, covers with border in blind, spine lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, light scuff marks on covers). Provenance : C.E.M. Wilson (Eagar Catalogue note). FIRST EDITION of this celebrated collection of biographies. Allen 47: "The first real cricket reporter reviews the players of his day and one of an earlier period, Alfred Mynn"; Britton p. 11; Goldman p. 173: "rare item"; Taylor p. 40; Padwick 876.
WILLIAM DENISON Cricket. Sketches of the Players . London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann R. Dark [and others], 1846. 12mo. (6¾ x 4in; 176 x 103mm) (light spotting on title), contemporary blue calf, covers with border in blind, spine lettered in gilt (extremities rubbed, light scuff marks on covers). Provenance : C.E.M. Wilson (Eagar Catalogue note). FIRST EDITION of this celebrated collection of biographies. Allen 47: "The first real cricket reporter reviews the players of his day and one of an earlier period, Alfred Mynn"; Britton p. 11; Goldman p. 173: "rare item"; Taylor p. 40; Padwick 876.
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