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WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1900 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1900. 8° (162 x 96mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. Some leaves unopened. (Pp. xli-xlviii creased at bottom margin.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners and sides lightly bumped).
WISDEN, John. Cricketers’ Almanack for 1900 . London: John Wisden and Co., 1900. 8° (162 x 96mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. Some leaves unopened. (Pp. xli-xlviii creased at bottom margin.) Original brown hardback publisher's cloth lettered in gilt, printed yellow endpapers (corners and sides lightly bumped). A FINE HARDBACK COPY of the thirty-seventh edition, only the fifth edition to be published in hardback as well as wrappers. It contains Alfred Gaston's 'Cricket Bibliography' (pp. xc-xcv), and reports on two celebrated overseas tours: ‘Lord Hawke’s Team in South Africa’, and ‘Ranjitsinhji’s Team in America’. 'Cricket in Australia’ includes reports of three matches between 'The Team for England’ and 'The Rest of Australia’, and three of the five cameo portraits are of Australian stars, J. Darling, M.A. Noble and C. Hill.