THOMAS BOXALL Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket London: printed by Harrild and Billing, [c. 1802] [1801 watermark]. 2 parts in one vol., 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 135 x 81mm), [i]-vi (title, 1-leaf dedication to the Mary-le-bone Club, 1-leaf preface) [7]-68 (Instructions for Cricketing) [69-70] (Single-Wicket Matches) + blank; 71, 78-92p. (Laws of Cricket; 72-77 omitted from the pagination). Folding engraved frontispiece (without the list of subscribers before p. 7, frontispiece frail and with closed tear touching on image, slight nicks to folds, first leaf of instructions holed at margin, occasional spotting, second part with marginal waterstaining), contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (spine rebacked but worn, lower cover detached). Provenance : D. Bowen, 1805 (ownership inscription on front pastedown) -- Mr. Medcalf of Hertfordshire (Eagar Catalogue note; with the further evidence of four letters from Mrs Medcalf to Eagar, dated Quisty Birches, Tewin Close, Tewin Wood, Herts., 14-20 January 1960, finally agreeing to the sale of her late husband's Boxall for £65). Second edition, second issue, of the first practical treatise on the game, containing the laws in the second part. According to Padwick, there were three editions, the first, c. 1801, omitting the frontispiece. There were at least two issues of the second edition, both c. 1802, while the third edition of 1804, of which three issues are known, was the first to be dated on the title-page. Taylor called Boxall's pocket book "perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days". In her letter of 17 January 1960, Mrs Medcalf tells Eagar: "I appreciate your remarks concerning the price of the Boxall, -- Mr. Epworth was highly indignant about the price my husband paid for it! On the other hand, Mr. Goldman who bid against him, insisted that the value of these rarities should be kept high and advised my husband to insure it for £100." Despite lacking the frontispiece and title, Judge Bertram Wakley's copy sold for £500 in his sale at Bonham's, 2 April 2003, lot 209. Accompanied by two typed broadsheets, the first headed "Undated Editions of Boxall", compares the collation of 4 copies: BL [I], MCC A.L. Ford [II], MCC A.L. Ford-E.R. Wilson [III], and Goldman [IV]. The second broadsheet is headed "Text Variations in I and II". EDRE has initialled II, presumably to indicate that the textual variants agree with his own copy. Allen 11; Goldman p. 168; Rair Kerr p. 120: "the Laws agree verbally with those of Britcher, and are reliable"; Taylor p. 17; Padwick 373.
THOMAS BOXALL Rules and Instructions for playing at the Game of Cricket London: printed by Harrild and Billing, [c. 1802] [1801 watermark]. 2 parts in one vol., 12mo. (5¼ x 3¼in; 135 x 81mm), [i]-vi (title, 1-leaf dedication to the Mary-le-bone Club, 1-leaf preface) [7]-68 (Instructions for Cricketing) [69-70] (Single-Wicket Matches) + blank; 71, 78-92p. (Laws of Cricket; 72-77 omitted from the pagination). Folding engraved frontispiece (without the list of subscribers before p. 7, frontispiece frail and with closed tear touching on image, slight nicks to folds, first leaf of instructions holed at margin, occasional spotting, second part with marginal waterstaining), contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (spine rebacked but worn, lower cover detached). Provenance : D. Bowen, 1805 (ownership inscription on front pastedown) -- Mr. Medcalf of Hertfordshire (Eagar Catalogue note; with the further evidence of four letters from Mrs Medcalf to Eagar, dated Quisty Birches, Tewin Close, Tewin Wood, Herts., 14-20 January 1960, finally agreeing to the sale of her late husband's Boxall for £65). Second edition, second issue, of the first practical treatise on the game, containing the laws in the second part. According to Padwick, there were three editions, the first, c. 1801, omitting the frontispiece. There were at least two issues of the second edition, both c. 1802, while the third edition of 1804, of which three issues are known, was the first to be dated on the title-page. Taylor called Boxall's pocket book "perhaps the most rare and coveted of the very few contributions to the literature of cricket in the early days". In her letter of 17 January 1960, Mrs Medcalf tells Eagar: "I appreciate your remarks concerning the price of the Boxall, -- Mr. Epworth was highly indignant about the price my husband paid for it! On the other hand, Mr. Goldman who bid against him, insisted that the value of these rarities should be kept high and advised my husband to insure it for £100." Despite lacking the frontispiece and title, Judge Bertram Wakley's copy sold for £500 in his sale at Bonham's, 2 April 2003, lot 209. Accompanied by two typed broadsheets, the first headed "Undated Editions of Boxall", compares the collation of 4 copies: BL [I], MCC A.L. Ford [II], MCC A.L. Ford-E.R. Wilson [III], and Goldman [IV]. The second broadsheet is headed "Text Variations in I and II". EDRE has initialled II, presumably to indicate that the textual variants agree with his own copy. Allen 11; Goldman p. 168; Rair Kerr p. 120: "the Laws agree verbally with those of Britcher, and are reliable"; Taylor p. 17; Padwick 373.
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