GRACE
GRACE, W G: Cricket, One of only 10 Presentation copies, Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1891, First edition, Large Paper De Luxe Edition, one of only 10 Presentation copies Signed by W G Grace and W Methven Brownlee. Crown quarto, pp xii, 512 (including the list of Subscribers, the total edition was of 652 copies). With a portrait frontispiece and 44 illustrations, some full-page, all on India paper, mounted. Half leather, (rebacked and corners little rubbed), t.e.g. with two bookplates pasted to front pastedown: Charles Pratt Green (famous for his 149 historic bats’ collection), and A E Winder (famous for his vast collection of Cricket books). This volume is also unique, in that it has an extra 15 (mainly heads) illustrations, pasted in the margins next to the player, in the chapter: 'Cricketers I have met'. Also: a loosely tipped-in 2pp Autograph letter, Signed; on CCCC, Thrissell House, Stapleton Rd. Bristol, headed paper; dated June 7th. 1890: “Dear Sir, Will you kindly allow Woods? (Sammy Woods ?) to play for his county on June 19, 20-21 and at Bristol against the Australians on July 10,11,& 12. We are awfully short of bowlers or I would not ask….. “ Signed: W. G. Grace, and addressed to The Revd. H. A. James.
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GRACE, W G: Cricket, One of only 10 Presentation copies, Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1891, First edition, Large Paper De Luxe Edition, one of only 10 Presentation copies Signed by W G Grace and W Methven Brownlee. Crown quarto, pp xii, 512 (including the list of Subscribers, the total edition was of 652 copies). With a portrait frontispiece and 44 illustrations, some full-page, all on India paper, mounted. Half leather, (rebacked and corners little rubbed), t.e.g. with two bookplates pasted to front pastedown: Charles Pratt Green (famous for his 149 historic bats’ collection), and A E Winder (famous for his vast collection of Cricket books). This volume is also unique, in that it has an extra 15 (mainly heads) illustrations, pasted in the margins next to the player, in the chapter: 'Cricketers I have met'. Also: a loosely tipped-in 2pp Autograph letter, Signed; on CCCC, Thrissell House, Stapleton Rd. Bristol, headed paper; dated June 7th. 1890: “Dear Sir, Will you kindly allow Woods? (Sammy Woods ?) to play for his county on June 19, 20-21 and at Bristol against the Australians on July 10,11,& 12. We are awfully short of bowlers or I would not ask….. “ Signed: W. G. Grace, and addressed to The Revd. H. A. James.
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