WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1916 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (161 x 100mm). (Large brown spot at lower margin of pp.225-26.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers (Gilt tarnished, ring mark on upper cover, corners rubbed, bookplate over advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance: C.T. Richwold (pencil signature). HARDBACK COPY . Fifty-third edition, 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. Whereas the 1913 edition had been a colossal 849 pages, the total in the face of war drops to 299, the lowest since 1882. The 1916 edition famously records the death of W.G. Grace, giving full statistics of his career. The suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915 add to the sense of catastrophe. As one historian of the almanack remarks 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (Robert Winder, The Little Wonder , 2013, p. 116).
WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1916 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (161 x 100mm). (Large brown spot at lower margin of pp.225-26.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers (Gilt tarnished, ring mark on upper cover, corners rubbed, bookplate over advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance: C.T. Richwold (pencil signature). HARDBACK COPY . Fifty-third edition, 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. Whereas the 1913 edition had been a colossal 849 pages, the total in the face of war drops to 299, the lowest since 1882. The 1916 edition famously records the death of W.G. Grace, giving full statistics of his career. The suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915 add to the sense of catastrophe. As one historian of the almanack remarks 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (Robert Winder, The Little Wonder , 2013, p. 116).
WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1916 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (161 x 100mm). (Large brown spot at lower margin of pp.225-26.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers (Gilt tarnished, ring mark on upper cover, corners rubbed, bookplate over advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance: C.T. Richwold (pencil signature). HARDBACK COPY . Fifty-third edition, 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. Whereas the 1913 edition had been a colossal 849 pages, the total in the face of war drops to 299, the lowest since 1882. The 1916 edition famously records the death of W.G. Grace, giving full statistics of his career. The suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915 add to the sense of catastrophe. As one historian of the almanack remarks 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (Robert Winder, The Little Wonder , 2013, p. 116).
WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1916 , edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (161 x 100mm). (Large brown spot at lower margin of pp.225-26.) Original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers (Gilt tarnished, ring mark on upper cover, corners rubbed, bookplate over advertisement on front pastedown). Provenance: C.T. Richwold (pencil signature). HARDBACK COPY . Fifty-third edition, 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. Whereas the 1913 edition had been a colossal 849 pages, the total in the face of war drops to 299, the lowest since 1882. The 1916 edition famously records the death of W.G. Grace, giving full statistics of his career. The suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915 add to the sense of catastrophe. As one historian of the almanack remarks 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (Robert Winder, The Little Wonder , 2013, p. 116).
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