WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1873 [-1875]. London: John Wisden, 1873-1874. 3 volumes in one, 8º (154 x 96mm). (1873 with front free endpaper and title detaching, 1874 with light soiling to title.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morocco labels, red speckled edges (rubbed, without wrappers). Provenance: H.R.K. Rogers, 1875 (first owner, his inscription on front free endpaper and initials in pencil on title to 1875).

WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1873 [-1875]. London: John Wisden, 1873-1874. 3 volumes in one, 8º (154 x 96mm). (1873 with front free endpaper and title detaching, 1874 with light soiling to title.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red morocco labels, red speckled edges (rubbed, without wrappers). Provenance: H.R.K. Rogers, 1875 (first owner, his inscription on front free endpaper and initials in pencil on title to 1875).

TENTH TO TWELFTH EDITION, united in the same binding since publication. A FINE COPY OF 1875. 'The rarest Wisden of all' (Rice and Renshaw), it was actually published in late 1874. This issue has 212pp.