Imperial Cricket -
P. F. Warner (editor)
1912 - The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, London - Subscriber’s Edition of 900
‘Hail CRICKET! Glorious, manly, British Game!
First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper. Sir Pelham Warner was known affectionately as Plum Warner and the ‘Grand Old Man of English Cricket’. In 1963 Warner’s ashes were scattered at Lord's near the Warner stand close to the spot where he had hit his first four for Rugby v Marlborough in 1889.
‘There have been many greater cricketers than Pelham Warner but none more devoted to the game. Nothing has ever damped his enthusiasm. Whether winning or losing he has always been the same.’ - Wisden Sydney Pardon.
Provenance: Gift inscription to Ralph Richard Cobley from his father dated 1931. We trace two, firstly the Hon. Major Ralph Richard Cobley DFC who was an English Commanding Officer, 652 Air Observation Post Squadron (Scotland, Normandy, NW Europe) during WWII, the second is Ralph Richard Cobley an Australian aviator who fought for the Indonesian Republic during the country's War of Independence, where he would fly his Catalina for the nascent republic. He was KIA when his plane crashed into the Batanghari River in Jambi, on 28 December 1948.
Reference: Padwick, Bibliography of Cricket 83. ESPN cricinfo.
Quarto (book size 32 x 26 x 6 cm) pp. [4] xxi [3] 503 [3]. Pagination is that of publisher, which includes plates. In publisher’s red cloth spine over red cloth boards, spine in gilt bordered compartments lettered in gilt, upper board lettered and blocked in black, top edge, gilt. Condition: Near fine, some toning and gentle spotting to first and last few pages, in very good cloth, with minor rubbing, slightly heavier to corners and edges, sunning to spine. Ref: 112633 Price: HK$ 3,000
First of all Sports! be alike in Fame!’ – James Love, 1744.
And Huzzah! to that. Presenting a large, magnificent and obviously Imperial work (32x26x6cm), which covers the growth and development of Cricket throughout the Empire from Hong Kong and the Far East, Ceylon, India, British Malaya and Bermuda to South Africa, West Africa, India, Australia, Fiji, Egypt and the Sudan. Not only the history of Cricket in each area but with anecdotes and illustrations. In addition there are chapters on The History of Cricket; Cricket and the Royal Family, Oxford and Cambridge Cricket; I Zingari; and Free Foresters.
One of 900 copies of the Subscriber’s Edition, heavily illustrated with six full page photogravure plates, three full page colour plates and 93 black and white images.
Contributors include FS Ashley-Cooper, ACM Croome, Andrew Lang, Cecil Headlam and SP Foenander. With an extensive index compiled by Ashley-Cooper. Sir Pelham Warner was known affectionately as Plum Warner and the ‘Grand Old Man of English Cricket’. In 1963 Warner’s ashes were scattered at Lord's near the Warner stand close to the spot where he had hit his first four for Rugby v Marlborough in 1889.
‘There have been many greater cricketers than Pelham Warner but none more devoted to the game. Nothing has ever damped his enthusiasm. Whether winning or losing he has always been the same.’ - Wisden Sydney Pardon.
Provenance: Gift inscription to Ralph Richard Cobley from his father dated 1931. We trace two, firstly the Hon. Major Ralph Richard Cobley DFC who was an English Commanding Officer, 652 Air Observation Post Squadron (Scotland, Normandy, NW Europe) during WWII, the second is Ralph Richard Cobley an Australian aviator who fought for the Indonesian Republic during the country's War of Independence, where he would fly his Catalina for the nascent republic. He was KIA when his plane crashed into the Batanghari River in Jambi, on 28 December 1948.
Reference: Padwick, Bibliography of Cricket 83. ESPN cricinfo.
Quarto (book size 32 x 26 x 6 cm) pp. [4] xxi [3] 503 [3]. Pagination is that of publisher, which includes plates. In publisher’s red cloth spine over red cloth boards, spine in gilt bordered compartments lettered in gilt, upper board lettered and blocked in black, top edge, gilt. Condition: Near fine, some toning and gentle spotting to first and last few pages, in very good cloth, with minor rubbing, slightly heavier to corners and edges, sunning to spine. Ref: 112633 Price: HK$ 3,000