Front matter
Reading edition
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H. Adlard sc.
THE BOWLER.
William Clarke. The Slow Bowler & Sec’y to the All England Eleven.
London. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans.
THE CRICKET FIELD: OR, THE HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE OF THE GAME OF CRICKET.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC BATTING,” “RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLEGE DAYS,” ETC. ETC.
“Gaudet … aprici gramine campi.”
“Pila velox, Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem.”—Hor.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS 1854.
“’Twas in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And five and twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school. Away they sped with gamesome minds And souls untouched with sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drove the wickets in.” Hood.
London: A. and G. A. Spottiswoode, New-street-Square.
DEDICATED TO J. A. B. MARSHALL, ESQ., AND THE MEMBERS OF THE LANSDOWN CRICKET CLUB, BY ONE OF THEIR OLDEST MEMBERS AND SINCERE FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.