WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1897, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1897. 8° (164 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. With the additional unpaginated leaf in quire I. Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt (staining to spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.C.W. Rainford (ownership signature).

WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1897, edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1897. 8° (164 x 100mm). Mounted photographic plate with five portraits. With the additional unpaginated leaf in quire I. Publisher's original hardback cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt (staining to spine, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.C.W. Rainford (ownership signature).

Thirty-fourth edition, SECOND EDITION IN HARDBACK, recording the ninth tour by Australia. Lilley, Richardson, Ranjitsinhji, Trumble and Gregory are the 'Five Cricketers of the Year'.