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Vanity Fair Print Lionel Palairet

He was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset and Oxford University. A graceful right-handed batsman, he was selected to play Test cricket for England twice in 1902. Contemporaries judged Palairet to have one of the most attractive batting styles of the period. His obituary in The Times described him as “the most beautiful batsman of all time”

Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet Vanity Fair Print . Original Lithograph with the caption at the bottom of the print: Repton Oxford & Somerset,

Palairet

Palairet

Published: 06-Aug-1903 Signed by: SPY, Leslie Ward . Dimensions approximately 26cm x 38cm. Free postage to mainland UK. Overseas buyers please contact us to agree shipping.

 

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