1897 Wisden Almanack with Five Cricketers of the Year

John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1897: rebound from title page to p.416 and incorporating the photographic plate 'Five Cricketers of the Year' (which included Trumble and Gregory of Australia), half red calf over cloth-covered boards, blank end-papers, gilt titles to spine. Provenance: The family, by descent from the estate of Essex cricketer and England selector, Percy Perrin (1876-1945). Percy Perrin played for Essex as a right-handed, middle-order batsman for more than thirty years from 1896. He was a Tottenham publican and a property developer who organised his considerable business activities around his cricket, turning out for Essex regularly from 1896 to 1926, and not retiring until 1928. His total of 496 County Championship matches for Essex is a record for an amateur player in English cricket. Perrin's biggest innings was a huge unbeaten 343, made out of an Essex total of 597 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield in 1904, which is the highest innings ever played by a batsman in a losing team. He was picked as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the almanack for 1905.