A print from a disbound book of England & Wales published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size each approx 9.25" x 3" or 23.5cm x 7.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
UNIVERSITY CRICKET MATCH AT LORD'S, 1893.
SURREY AND AUSTRALIANS CRICKET MATCH AT KENNINGTON OVAL, 1893.
These two views illustrate the most English of English games, as played and witnessed in the acknowledged Metropolitan head-quarters. Up to 1750 cricket, as appears from Southey, was reckoned vulgar. But in 1780 Thomas Lord established the first "Lord's Cricket Ground" in a field now covered by Dorset Square; and here the Marylebone Club brought the game to perfection. The present Lord's Ground is on the north side of St. John's Wood Road, and is about seven acres in extent. Here are played annually the matches between Eton and Harrow, and Oxford and Cambridge. The other great London ground, Kennington Oval, covers about nine acres, and was opened in 1846 as the speculation of Mr. Houghton; it is now, however, held by the Surrey Club on lease from the Duchy of Cornwall.