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

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

Lot 442
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Tan cloth with gilt titles and illustration to cover, gilt to top edge, and later replacement green leather spine and corners. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 17. Subscriber number 17 was The Hon. and Rev. F.G. Pelham, London, who became 5th Earl of Chichester in 1901, and whose bookplate is laid to inside front cover. Padwick 903. Very good condition
Francis Godolphin Pelham played 25 first-class matches for Cambridge University and Sussex 1964-1868.

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