WISDEN – Cricketers’ Almanack for 1910 [-1915],edited by Sydney H. Pardon. London: John Wisden and Co., 1910-1915.

All hardback editions, 48th to 52nd in the series. G.A. Faulkner of South Africa becomes only the second man to score a century and take five wickets in a Test match (1910 season). Kent’s F.H. Huish becomes the first wicket-keeper to trap 100 victims in the 1911 season and he repeats the feat in 1913. S.F. Barnes takes 49 wickets in the 1913-14 Test series against South Africa, at an average of under 11 runs this is still an unbeaten record. The jubilee edition of 1913 contains a photograph and reminiscences of John Wisden. The 1915 edition was the first to be subject to a price increase for paper bound copies, they went up to 1/6d having held their price for half a century, while the hardback edition rose to 2/10d.

6 volumes, octavo (161 x 100mm) all with mounted photographic plate, and all bound in original publisher’s hardback cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, original printed wrappers used as endpapers. 1910: (plate spotted on verso, otherwise internally a clean copy, spine a fraction rubbed, lower corners bumped); 1911: (light cockling due to damp affecting last 100pp., this extending into rear cover, front cover with cloth bubbling, extremities rubbed, more heavily to joints). Provenance: ink inscription in margin of front free endpaper obscured by remains of paper label; 1912: (internally clean, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.F. Whitfield (signature on verso of plate); 1913: portrait of John Wisden (pp.5-12 roughly opened with associated small tears and chips to top margin, otherwise a clean copy, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: H.F. Whitfield (ink ownership inscription dated 1913 in margin of front free endpaper) – bookseller's ticket on front pastedown; 1914: (occasional faint scattered spotting confined to margins, extremities lightly rubbed); 1915: (a clean copy, extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: R.N. Jones (ink inscription in preliminary ads).

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