WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1916. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (160 x 97mm). Original printed yellow wrappers (spine worn at extremities, with loss of '19' in printed date.)
Fifty-third edition, described in the next as 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. It resonates with the death of W.G. Grace, 'cricket's own great father figure'. No less shocking is the suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915. Rupert Brooke's bowling average for the Rugby Eleven is followed by the terse fact that 'he had gained considerable reputation as a poet'. As Robert Winder states, 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (The Little Wonder, 2013, p. 116).
WISDEN, John. Cricketers' Almanack for 1916. London: John Wisden and Co., 1916. 8° (160 x 97mm). Original printed yellow wrappers (spine worn at extremities, with loss of '19' in printed date.)
Fifty-third edition, described in the next as 'a small edition being sold out in a few days'. It resonates with the death of W.G. Grace, 'cricket's own great father figure'. No less shocking is the suicide of A.E. Stoddart, the death of Victor Trumper from Bright's disease, and the long roll of war deaths among cricketers in 1915. Rupert Brooke's bowling average for the Rugby Eleven is followed by the terse fact that 'he had gained considerable reputation as a poet'. As Robert Winder states, 'The personal force of the memoirs and the cumulative effect of the death list generate as much heartache as the saddest novel' (The Little Wonder, 2013, p. 116).
