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

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Padwick 397. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Handwritten inscription by Wanostrocht to inside front board reads ‘To Vincent Fenn Esquire with the Author’s Kindest regards’. Some wear and staining to original boards, fading to spine, some foxing internally otherwise in good condition