[PYCROFT, James].

CRICKETANA. BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE CRICKET-FIELD'.
London, 1865.
Small 8vo. 238pp. 5 plates. Original quarter calf, spine rubbed. With the bookplate of R.G. Venables.
SIGNED AND DATED MAY 1865 BY R.G. VENABLES on the front endpaper. Venables (1846-1920) played for Oxford University between 1866 and 1869, and for Free Foresters, Shropshire and Cornwall. A series of papers contributed to London Society in 1863 and 1864. Altham, History of Cricket, 1926: 'Miscellaneous reflections, historical and contemporary, on cricket down to 1864.' Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Neither edition is very rare.' Padwick, 909.
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