DENISON, William. Cricket. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 12/f (175 x 104mm). (Occasional light soiling.) Modern green half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, original printed buff wrappers bound in (wrappers crease-marked and with fragments torn from edges). Provenance: purchase inscription, dated 1 November 1849, on title and inner front wrapper.
FIRST EDITION WITH WRAPPERS of the earliest collection of cricket biographies. Dedicated to the members of the Marylebone Cricket Club, it is largely about Denison's contemporaries, though beginning with the earlier figure of Alfred Mynn. Padwick 876.
DENISON, William. Cricket. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 12/f (175 x 104mm). (Occasional light soiling.) Modern green half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, original printed buff wrappers bound in (wrappers crease-marked and with fragments torn from edges). Provenance: purchase inscription, dated 1 November 1849, on title and inner front wrapper.
FIRST EDITION WITH WRAPPERS of the earliest collection of cricket biographies. Dedicated to the members of the Marylebone Cricket Club, it is largely about Denison's contemporaries, though beginning with the earlier figure of Alfred Mynn. Padwick 876.
![DENISON, William. Cricket. Sketches of the Players. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 12/f (175 x 104mm). (Occasional light soiling.) Modern green half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, original printed buff wrappers bound in (wrappers crease-marked and with fragments torn from edges). Provenance: purchase inscription, dated 1 November 1849, on title and inner front wrapper.](/lot-images/5612793/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0264_000(denison_william_cricket_sketches_of_the_players_london_simpkin_marshal102006).jpg?maxwidth=3840)