Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024

Lot 821
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £80
‘Dr W.G. Grace. The King of Cricket’. F.G. Warne. Burleigh’s Penny Biographies. 1899. Bound in black boards, lacking original pictorial wrappers. Some minor wear and odd faults otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘The History of a Hundred Centuries’. W.G. Grace. Edited by W. Yardley. London 1895. Rebound preserving original wrappers. The rear wrapper with loss to lower border, both wrappers with old tape to wrapper extremities, small loss to lower border of the front wrapper otherwise in good condition. Plus ‘Dr W.G. Grace’. Acton Wye. The Bijou Library 1901 and ‘W.G. Grace on Batting, Bowling, Fielding’, Bristol 1892, both bound in black boards, lacking original wrappers, with titles in gilt to spine and ‘The Chronicle of W.G.’, J.R. Webber, Nottingham 1998. Limited subscriber’s edition number 295/440. Signed to the limitation page by the author, also Marianne Day, Granddaughter of W.G. and G.F. Grace, Great Nephew of W.G. Paperback in good condition. Qty 5

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