The Empire`s Cricketers: from Original Drawings By A.Chevallier Tayler with Biographiclal Sketches By G.W. Beldam, Season 1905.
Date: 1905
All 48 Chromolithograph prints bound in 'The Empire`s Cricketers' book.
Probably the foremost publication of cricket images in the early 20th century. Drawn in chalk on dark paper by Tayler, these caricatures are realistic action studies, which sets them apart from other slighly less dynamnic illustrations. Subjects include W. G. Grace, Victor Trumper, C. B. Fry, Bosanquet and Iremonger. Each image is accompanied a biography of the player.
A hard back book with a gilt embossed spine, image sizes: 375mm × 250mm
14.5 x 10" approx.
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