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Copy specific notes

Bookplate inserted; inscribed in blue ink on title page: “R.G.M. With every good wish. Jim Swanton, Sandwich, July, 1966.” Note dustwrapper is present (unlike copy 1). Various pages earmarked and highlights made throughout in pencil on subjects including: pp. 11 – 12 (writing style of Robertson-Glasgow); 14 (similarities with Cardus); 17 (cricket as a religion); 36 – 37 (bowling style of Arthur Mailey); 38 (batting style of Charlie Macartney); 41 (bowling style of John Cornish White); 121 – 122 (Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe as an opening pair); 126 (earmarked); 127 – 128 (batting style of Frank Wooley); 133 (captaincy of Jardine); 171 (batting style and captaincy of W. M. Woodfull); 172 – 173 (wicket-keeping style of W. A. Oldfield); 200 – 201 (bowling style of A. A. Mailey); 291 (importance of panache in cricket); 292 (bowling being “nature’s gift”); 310 (batting style of E. Hendren); and 312 (pace of Harold Lardwood’s bowling).