READ, (W.W.).

ANNALS OF CRICKET. A RECORD OF THE GAME COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND MY OWN EXPERIENCES DURING THE LAST TWENTY-THREE YEARS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN SHUTER.
London, 1896.
Large 8vo. 268pp. 23 plates, and other full-page text illustrations. Original quarter vellum, good condition. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, printed on hand-made paper.
LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION of 250 copies, of which this is unnumbered. Autobiography of the Surrey and England cricketer W.W. Read. Read played for Surrey between 1873 and 1897. He played 18 Test matches for England between 1882 and 1893. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926: 'A useful chronological survey from earliest times.' This was selected by C.J. Britton in his 1929 publication Cricket Books, The 100 Best. Padwick, 7987.
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