Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 825
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: unsold
William Gilbert Grace junior. ‘The Universe: or the Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little’. F.A. Pouchet. Ninth edition, Blackie & Son, Glasgow & London 1888. Original blue cloth with ornate decorative boards and spine. Gilt to all page edges. Presentation copy with dedication in ink to front end paper to ‘Willliam Gilbert Grace, July 6 [18]88, with love from Uncle and Aunt Nicholls’. Appears to be signed in pencil by Grace junior to the inside front cover. Title page clipped to top edge, minor wear to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice association copy.
W.G. Grace (senior) married Agnes Nicholls Day and they had five children, one of whom, William Gilbert junior celebrated his fourteenth birthday on 6th July 1888, the date this title was presented to him. It is assumed that ‘Uncle and Aunt Nicholls’ were related to his mother.