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

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

Lot 845
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £18
Cricket histories and biographies. Eight titles including ‘The Cricket Field’, Rev James Pycroft, London 1873. Sixth edition, revised. Original pictorial boards. Photographic plate of W.G. Grace opposite title page. Breaking to front internal hinge, some staining and wear to boards. ‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. London 1896. Original pictorial boards with some wear. ‘The Game of Cricket’, Frederick Gale, London 1888, page block partially detached. ‘Kings of Cricket’, Richard Daft, Bristol 1893, breaking to internal hinges, odd page detached. ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Edinburgh 1897. ‘Cricket’, W.G. Grace, Bristol 1891. ‘The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace’, Lords Hawke, Harris & Home Gordon, London 1919. ‘The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry. London 1899, breaking to internal hinges, wear to boards. The majority ex libris. Faults as described. Sold with a collection of newspaper cuttings with general sporting interest c.1920s-1950s loosely contained in the covers of an exercise book. Fair condition. Qty 9.

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