ORMEROD, (G. Wareing).

ANNALS OF THE TEIGNBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB. 1823-1883. COMPILED BY G. WAREING ORMEROD.
Plymouth, privately printed, (1888).
Small 4to. xii+103pp. Frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, covers soiled. With the bookplates of Hampshire County Cricket Club and E.D.R. Eagar.
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE COMPILER on the half-title. WITH A TWO PAGE SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM THE COMPILER laid down on the front endpaper. The only history of this Club. In his preface the compiler states that there is no evidence that the game of cricket was supported in Devonshire by any permanent Club before 18th May 1823 [when the Teignbridge Club was founded]. Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'Charming and artistic volume...' Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Private circulation.' Padwick, 1864.
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