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

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

Lot 859
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £320
Alfred D. Taylor. Four page price list with title to front, ‘For Sale. Having recently purchased a quantity of books on Cricket and Football they are offered for sale at very moderate charges by Alfred D. Taylor, 1, Hove Place, West Brighton, Sussex’. A copy of the ‘Worcestershire Cricket Guide of 1905’ dates this to c.1905. Contained in a modern green quarter leather slipcase with ribbon ties with bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover, who purchased it from J.W. McKenzie in 1977. Padwick 38-1 (not seen). Rare, no other copy is known. Folds and age toning, otherwise in good condition.
Alfred Taylor produced his ‘Catalogue of Cricket Literature’, the first of its kind, in 1906, and was briefly in competition with local Sussex dealer, A.J. Gaston.

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