GALE, (Frederick).

ECHOES FROM OLD CRICKET FIELDS OR SKETCHES OF CRICKET AND CRICKETERS FROM THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE GAME TO THE PRESENT TIME...
London, 1871.
8vo. xii+112pp. Frontispiece (stained at lower edge). Original pictorial boards, rebacked, corners rubbed.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR inside the front cover:...With the Authors Very Kind Wishes, March 1872. FIRST EDITION. Fascinating sketches of cricket and cricketers from the earliest history of the game. Gaston, Cricket Books and Their Prices, [in The Cricket Field, Volume III, 1894]: 'No laudation is required to recommend this book. The original articles first appeared in the Sporting Magazine. It is really refreshing even now to read through its pages. The coloured wrapper has a representation of 'Cricket in 1743' while the frontispiece is embellished with a sketch of famous old cricket bats - bats which have a history, and a charming story...' Altham, History of Cricket, 1926: '...expressing the author's views on the manners and morals of the game...some chapters of real historical interest, especially "A Pipe in Fuller Pilch's Back Parlour"...and "John Bowyer." The "Old Buffer's" style is always charmingly original and animated.' Britton, Cricket Books. The 100 Best, 1929: 'Quite scarce. The nearest of all cricket books to Nyren....' Allen, Early Books on Cricket, 1987, no.114: 'The book includes 'Twenty Golden Rules for Young Cricketers' which had been produced as a separate booklet in 1869.' Goldman, Bibliography of Cricket, 1937: 'The 1871 edition is scarce.' Padwick, 809.
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