SIGNED BY GRACE
Cricket
Arrowsmith, 1891.
First edition, large paper de luxe issue. Number 305 of 652 copies signed by Grace. Half black morocco over cloth boards. Top edge gilt, other uncut. Illustrated throughout with 45 mounted plates, engraved on India paper. A very good copy, spine and corners skilfully renewed to original style, the effect being most handsome.
The classic technical and historical treatise on cricket by the game's most famous and colourful player.
PROVENANCE: The original subscriber of this copy is E. C. Austen-Leigh, a great-nephew of Jane Austen and master at Eton College. In his youth he bowled for the school.
Stock ID: 38780
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