Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 914
Estimate: £300/400
Hammer: £300
‘Cricket Scores, Notes, &c. From 1730-1773. Written as reported in the different newspapers....’. Compiled by H.T. Waghorn. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 1899. Original red decorative boards, tooled bat and ball emblem to front, gilt title to spine. Bookplates of W. Clafton and G.B. Buckley to inside front cover and front endpaper with pencil annotations by Buckley stating that this was a presentation copy to him and that annotations to pages throughout are in his hand. To the rear endpaper and inside back cover is Buckley’s own neatly compiled index comprising some 300 entries in his own hand. Minor staining to boards otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with ‘Index Compiled by G.B. Buckley to H.T. Waghorn’s “Cricket Scores, 1730-1773”’. 14pp stapled typescript comprising ‘Corrigenda [errata]’, ‘General Index’, ‘Geographical Index’, and ‘Index to Famous Persons’, with several loose papers of handwritten notes, all contained in red cloth slipcase with gilt title to spine. Not listed in Padwick and probably unique with no other copy recorded. Very good condition. Qty 2.
George Bent Buckley (1885-1962) was a celebrated cricket historian and authority on early cricket. Born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Buckley was a surgeon by profession, and served in WWI with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1916 ‘for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty’. On his retirement he devoted his later years to researching eighteenth century cricket, compiling an extensive collection of cricket historian from early newspapers, and publishing his two classic works on the subject in 1935 and 1937. In 1938 Buckley moved to Weston-super-Mare in Somerset where he lived in a Victorian house close to his local cricket ground.