Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 917
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £140
‘Scores and Analyses 1864-1881. A Collection’. Compiled by J.B. Payne Published in 1904 by the author. Printed by John Hodgson, Harrogate. Contains the full scores of 60 matches not found in Wisden. Limited to only 100 copies. Rebound in later green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front end paper ‘Presented by the compiler to “Old Ebor” [A.W. Pullin], 14th June 1904’. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 908. Very good condition.
Alfred Pullin was considered one of the great authorities on the subjects of cricket and rugby. He was a regular columnist in the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, writing under the name ‘Old Ebor’, and published several books on Yorkshire cricket.