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

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

Lot 880
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £20
‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’ 1885 & 1888. Two bound volumes. Volume IV. Numbers 80-109 (31st January to 24th December 1885). Bound in modern green leather, title in gilt to spine. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Lacking issue no. 98 and supplement for 23rd July. Loss and tape repair to p.13/14. Staining to some pages. Volume VII. Numbers 170-199 (26th January to 27th December 1888). Bound in publisher’s green cloth, title in gilt to front and spine. Title page and contents page to front, lacking original wrappers. Includes three supplement score sheets bound in to rear (lacking the supplements for 14th June, 21st June & 5th July, and pictorial supplement of 1st November). p.205/6 with corner missing, replacement facsimile taped in. Tears to some other pages, staining to boards. Faults to both volumes as described, otherwise in generally good condition.

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