Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books

Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024

Lot 294
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £40
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Handsomely bound in full black leather, lacking original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Lacking front and rear advertising pages otherwise in good/very good condition. Handwritten name of ownership and date ‘1965’ to the front end paper. Sold with a facsimile edition of the 1869 edition, printed by Billing & Sons Ltd, London 1960. Handsomely bound in full black leather with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Handwritten name of ownership and date ‘1966’ to first end paper. G/VG

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