WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1898, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1898. 8° (164 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt (spine lightly rubbed at head, small adhesive mark on upper cover, yellow front free endpaper a little torn and stained). Provenance: W. Clafton (bookplate).
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WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1898, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1898. 8° (164 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt (spine lightly rubbed at head, small adhesive mark on upper cover, yellow front free endpaper a little torn and stained). Provenance: W. Clafton (bookplate).

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WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1898, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1898. 8° (164 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt (spine lightly rubbed at head, small adhesive mark on upper cover, yellow front free endpaper a little torn and stained). Provenance: W. Clafton (bookplate).

Thirty-fifth edition, THIRD EDITION IN HARDBACK. The best known of the 'Five Cricketers of the Year', featured in this edition, was Gilbert Jessop. A GOOD, BRIGHT COPY.