‘W.G.’
GRACE, W.G.
BRIGHT COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: James Bowden, 1899
Stock code: 18346
Price: £162.00
8vo., First Edition, with fine portait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 80 pages of plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original decorative blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in white, upper board with mounted coloured illustration of WG at the wicket, joints lightly rubbed, top dust-soiled, expertly recased, covers mildly age-faded else a very good, clean copy.
With 32pp publisher's illustrated catalogue bound in at end. Arguably Grace's most readable book, this classic semi-autobiography contains hints for young cricketers and a wealth of cricketing statistics. Padwick, 7583