ASHLEY-COOPER, (F.S.).

EDWARD MILLS GRACE, CRICKETER.
London, 1916.
8vo. 240pp. 6 plates. Original decorative cloth, covers soiled.
PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO E.V. LUCAS, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "E.V.L." with the best wishes of F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Lucas (1868-1938) was a prolific author and poet. He began writing in Punch magazine in 1904 and contributed a regular column titled A Wanderer's Notebook in the Sunday Times. In 1924 he became chairman of the London publishers Methuen & Co. A biography of the Gloucestershire and England all-rounder E.M. Grace, brother of G.F. and W.G. Grace. Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'Scarce.' Padwick, 7566.
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