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Felix, Nicholas,
1804-1876.
Felix on the bat :
being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.
London :
Baily Brothers, Cornhill,
MDCCCXLV [1845]
40, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates :
ill. ;
25 cm.
First instructional cricket book to give practical, illustrated advice. Cf. DNB.
Only color plate book prior to 1850 devoted to cricket. Cf. Abbey.
By Nicholas Felix (pseudonym of Nicholas Wanostrocht).
Lithographic illustrations probably not by G.F. Watts, but in his style. Illustrations likely after designs by Felix and Sir John Gilbert. Cf. DNB.
Plates printed by C. Graf.
Wood engraved illustrations and initials within text throughout.
DNB (2004 ed.),
v. 57, p. 244
With a final addenda leaf followed by three leaves of bookseller's advertisements.
Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes,
327
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860,
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q105584166
396
BAC: British Art Center is the Abbey copy. Bound in blind- and gilt-stamped green publisher's binding by Remnant & Edmonds, London. Title stamped in gilt on cover surrounding a vignette of two males playing cricket.
Cricket
Great Britain.
Games
Great Britain
19th century.
Sports
Great Britain
19th century.
Great Britain
Social life and customs
19th century.
Amusements
Great Britain
19th century.
Wood engravings
1845.
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Chron.
1845.
Lithographs
Hand-colored
1845.
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Lithographs
1845.
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Booksellers' advertisements.
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Baily Bros.
Publisher.
Remnant & Edmonds
Binder.
Felix, Nicholas,
1804-1876,
ill.
Gilbert, John,
Sir,
1817-1897,
ill.
Watts, George Frederick,
1817-1904,
attributed name.
Marylebone Cricket Club.
GV917 .W36 1845
Exhibited in:
Pleasures and Pastimes
(Yale Center for British Art,
February 21, 1990-April 29, 1990)
(CtY-BA)644
CtY-BA
England
London.
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AC06212000