ALEXANDER REID editor] The Cabinet: A repository of facts, figures, and fancies relating to the voyage of the "Great Britain" S.S. from Liverpool to Melbourne, with the Eleven of All England Melbourne: Mason and Firth for J. Reid, 1862 [4 issues, originally printed on board ship 9 November, 3, 13 and 19 December, 1861]. 4to., [2] + 46p., double column (B2 with repaired tear slightly affecting text, small repairs to lower corners in quire A), contemporary hard-grained brown cloth, upper cover titled in gilt (rebacked and recornered in reversed calf), original printed yellow wrappers bound in. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (bookplate; his inscription on front free endpaper, "This is probably the only copy in existence", signed and dated, May 1939; included in his sale at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 268, listed as selling to Harwood but, in fact, bought in at £22). THE PRECURSOR OF ALL TOUR BROCHURES. This magazine, first printed on board Brunel's ship, was reprinted in Melbourne with an added title-page, presumably because of the huge interest generated by the visiting England XI. It forms a sociologically fascinating account of "six to seven hundred people, travelling from a country distinguished as mistress of the seas ... to the most flourishing of that country's colonies; travelling, too, in one of the most magnificent specimens of naval architetcure of the period". The Eleven are introduced on pp. 3-4, with a short biographical note on each player, and an account of cricket in Victoria. The "Diary of the Voyage", given on pp. 7-8, 24, 35 and 45, enables one to appreciate exactly what kind of experience they had; issue no. IV also includes "Our Course and the Land We sighted" (pp. 39-40). A long article, "How I became a Cricketer (by one of the Eleven)" appears in no. II (pp. 12-13), while no. III features "Captain Stephenson's Address to the Eleven", a remarkable 62-line poem (pp. 28-29). The final no. concludes with a splendid description of "the landing of the Eleven". NO COPY IN MCC LIBRARY. Allen 84; Goldman p. 38; Padwick 4399.
ALEXANDER REID editor] The Cabinet: A repository of facts, figures, and fancies relating to the voyage of the "Great Britain" S.S. from Liverpool to Melbourne, with the Eleven of All England Melbourne: Mason and Firth for J. Reid, 1862 [4 issues, originally printed on board ship 9 November, 3, 13 and 19 December, 1861]. 4to., [2] + 46p., double column (B2 with repaired tear slightly affecting text, small repairs to lower corners in quire A), contemporary hard-grained brown cloth, upper cover titled in gilt (rebacked and recornered in reversed calf), original printed yellow wrappers bound in. Provenance : J.W. Goldman (bookplate; his inscription on front free endpaper, "This is probably the only copy in existence", signed and dated, May 1939; included in his sale at Hodgson's, 24 November 1966, lot 268, listed as selling to Harwood but, in fact, bought in at £22). THE PRECURSOR OF ALL TOUR BROCHURES. This magazine, first printed on board Brunel's ship, was reprinted in Melbourne with an added title-page, presumably because of the huge interest generated by the visiting England XI. It forms a sociologically fascinating account of "six to seven hundred people, travelling from a country distinguished as mistress of the seas ... to the most flourishing of that country's colonies; travelling, too, in one of the most magnificent specimens of naval architetcure of the period". The Eleven are introduced on pp. 3-4, with a short biographical note on each player, and an account of cricket in Victoria. The "Diary of the Voyage", given on pp. 7-8, 24, 35 and 45, enables one to appreciate exactly what kind of experience they had; issue no. IV also includes "Our Course and the Land We sighted" (pp. 39-40). A long article, "How I became a Cricketer (by one of the Eleven)" appears in no. II (pp. 12-13), while no. III features "Captain Stephenson's Address to the Eleven", a remarkable 62-line poem (pp. 28-29). The final no. concludes with a splendid description of "the landing of the Eleven". NO COPY IN MCC LIBRARY. Allen 84; Goldman p. 38; Padwick 4399.
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