WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1872. London: John Wisden and Co., 1872. 8° (154 x 95mm). (Title spotted, light spotting to preliminaries and end leaves.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges.
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WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1872. London: John Wisden and Co., 1872. 8° (154 x 95mm). (Title spotted, light spotting to preliminaries and end leaves.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges.

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WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1872. London: John Wisden and Co., 1872. 8° (154 x 95mm). (Title spotted, light spotting to preliminaries and end leaves.) Early 20th-century brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, red speckled edges.

Ninth edition, the first edition to contain an obituary, that of James Henry Dark proprietor of Lord's ground from 1836 to 1864 (p. 71).