pycroft rev james (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. A very good reprint copy with quarter calf binding with crimson morocco binding and gilt titling, gilt top edges, b&w frontis portrait and illstns.Tight and square, slight wear to edges, a small name stamp in front.

Instructional book aimed at boys from some of the leading cricketers and writers of the day. Small 8vo. xii + 244pp. Frontispiece. Woodcut illustrations in the text. Pencil writing to front endpaper. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Rubbed to edges with some staining. Fair/good condition. [Padwick, 442].

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. R200121317: 1854. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos fané, Quelques rousseurs. 283 pages + nombreuse spages publicitaires. Petit manque en bas de page de titre. En anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

James Pycroft (1813-95) was a pioneer of cricket research and in the opinion of Ashley-Cooper his efforts in this direction surpassed those of earlier commentators like Boxall, Lambert and Nyren. This classic book on cricket technique, the first of its kind, is one of the game's great literary masterpieces, covering many key aspects of the game including its origins, the rise of the Hambledon club, I Zingari, Surrey CCC, the impact of gambling, together with tutorials on batting, bowling and fielding. The first edition was published in 1851 and there were eight further editions up to 1887. Seventh edition revised. 12mo. vi+370pp. Original green boards, lightly rubbed. Some intermittent foxing inside, mainly to early pages. Good condition.

Sole edition, small 8vo, vi, 238, (2 advertisement) pp. 5 plates, strip cut from the top of the title page, which has also had a label placed over an old signature and then partially removed, author's name also written in, more modern label to fly leaf, also obscuring a signature. Later gilt titled cloth.

Half Morocco. Zustand: Very Good. Third Edition. Third edition. xx, 269, [2 publisher's advertisements] pp. 2 full page engravings, with a number of in-text black and white diagrams. Later red half morocco over original green cloth boards, with a gilt batsman decoration and gilt lettering to the spine; marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name in ink and minimal spotting. 18.5cms tall. Small 8vo.

James Pycroft (1813-1895) was born at Geyers House, in Wiltshire, and died at Brighton aged 82. The Cricket Field was his major work, and remains one of cricket's key early books. His approach, also favoured by many other authors of the day, was to mythologise cricket as a noble, manly and essentially British pastime, favourably comparing the virtues of Victorian cricket with the disgraceful state of play at the turn of the century, when betting on the outcome of matches was widespread. "If there should happen by any chance to be a cricketer who has never heard of a book called The Cricket-Field, written by Mr Pycroft, he is strongly advised to buy it at once ." suggested FS Ashley-Cooper ". for it is the book on which nearly all others, in the historical part at least, may be said to be founded ." Third Edition. 12mo. xvii + 269pp. Frontispiece of "The Bowler" (William Clarke), further plate of "The Batsman" (Fuller Pilch). Several engraved figures in the text. Some light internal foxing. Rebound in brown boards with gilt title to spine. New endpapers and pastedowns. A very good copy. [Padwick, 394] A seminal work which Charles Britton called "one of the most entertaining books on cricket" and "one of the classics of the game".

12mo. 17 x 12 cm. Full green cloth boards bound by Virtue & Co., upper with cricket motif stamped in black. Spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with mounted albumen print of English cricketer W.G. Grace. Ads at back. Housed in grey cloth clamshell box. 6th edition, revised. Ownership inked on front pastedown, dated 1882; embossed stamp of W.H. Smith & Son (Strand, London) on front free endpaper. Generally very good condition: extremities lightly rubbed, albumen lightly faded; some toning, else generally clean.