1883 Wisden Paperback – Exceptional

This is a LOVELY condition 1883 Wisden Paperback edition. The Twentieth edition.

This edition comes from the Diana Rait Kerr collection. Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr was the MCC Secretary from 1936 to 1952. His daughter Diana joined him at Lord’s after WW2 to help catalogue and arrange the MCC library. She eventually became Curator of the MCC museum. During her work at Lord’s she also wrote extensively for cricket publications and co-wrote books with Ian Peebles. She was also one of the first women to be offered MCC membership.
She inherited her fathers’ Wisden collection and also built her own and when the set was offered to me I bought all 240+ editions.

This edition has original front and rear wrappers, both are in lovely condition, with only minor ageing to the outside edges. The spine is a super professionally-made facsimile. There is some restoration to the left of the front and the rear wrappers- this can be seen on the photographs and this is very common with early Wisdens.

Internally there is some foxing and blotchiness to the early pages and the page block, but considering this is a 141-year-old edition, the pages within are lovely.

Contents Include:
I Zingali Match Results
Individual Innings of Three Figures in 1882.
M. C. C. Matches.
The Universities in 1882.
The Counties – Middlesex, Lancashire, Yorkshire,Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Derbyshire, Somersetshire.
The Australians in England.
Shaw’s Team in America, Australia and New Zealand.
Birth and Death Dates of Cricketers.
Umpires – Where to find them.
The Calendar.

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