Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £45 |
CRICKET - Charles Exeter Devereux CROMBIE (1880-1967, illustrator). Laws of Cricket. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd. ... Copyright of Perrier, [1907]. Oblong 4to (270 x 380mm). Title printed in green, red and black, coloured advertising leaf for Perrier, 12 coloured plates by Charles Crombie, coloured advertisements for Perrier laid down on the verso of each leaf (title stained and frayed, all the plates and leaves detached, some staining at stitching holes, but the plates very clean). Original pictorial boards (stained, boards detached). Provenance: From the Estate of the Late Kenneth Partridge. Further details of the provenance can be found here: https://www.bellmans.co.uk/story/the-collection-of-the-kenneth-partridge. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, and RARE in the original boards. In addition to his work as a sporting and editorial cartoonist, Crombie also illustrated a number of P. G. Wodehouse's short stories in The Strand Magazine between 1926 and 1930. Padwick A Bibliography of Cricket 7012.