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FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. xxi + [i] + 649 pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with contrasting maroon title, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has minor edge wear; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by vignettes of Victorian engravings and by publisher's device on title page. When published a definitive bibliography of cricket, covering every aspect of the game at home and around the world with eight thousand entries. It contains a twelve thousand entry index of authors and titles, a full synopsis of contents and a Foreword on the literature of cricket by John Arlott. Eric William Padwick (1923-2010) was Deputy Librarian at the Guildhall Library, London.