Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books
Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024
Lot 214
Estimate: £1000/1500
Hammer: £2800
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1874. 11th edition. Bound in marbled half leather boards with marbled end papers, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, complete. Pages trimmed by the binder. Minor pencil annotation to odd page otherwise in very good condition. Book plate of Russell Bencraft to inside front board, from his collection
Russell Bencraft played for Hampshire and held almost every office for the County side including, as Honorary Secretary, saving them from near extinction in 1879, and attaining first class status in 1894 as Captain. Bencraft was Captain, Treasurer, Secretary, Chairman and President of Hampshire C.C.C. throughout his life