Download or read book W G Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections Classic Reprint written by William Gilbert Grace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from W. G. Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections I take up my pen with reluctance, for writing is not a recreation I care for. Nature, training, temperament, and predilection combine to make me prefer the Open air, and even now I would sooner enter on a long day's leather-hunting than write a Single chapter of reminiscences. But the chapters must be written. I have promised, and must fulfil that promise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book W G Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections written by W G Grace and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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