ALCOCK, (C.W.).

FAMOUS CRICKETERS AND CRICKET GROUNDS 1895. A COMPLETE SET OF EIGHTEEN INDIVIDUAL ISSUES.
(London, 1895).
Folio. 288 pages of plates. Eighteen individual issues, with each issue in original pictorial wrappers, as published. Handsomely preserved in half calf drop-back box.
(A COMPLETE SET). Published in eighteen weekly issues, each issue in original pictorial wrappers. Full-page illustrations of 19th century cricketers and cricket grounds. Originally issued in eighteen weekly parts it was then published in cloth with a title-page and index. Taylor, Catalogue of Cricket Literature, 1906: 'An index was issued...but unfortunately it is practically useless as the pages are not numbered.' Padwick, 7166.
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