Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books
Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024
Lot 527
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £230
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. Third edition. London 1855. Padwick 397. Seventy four pages, 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. Some wear to original boards otherwise in good/very good condition
Interestingly the book is slightly smaller than the first and second editions which are of uniform size. The plates in the second edition are different to the first edition, the first edition by C. Graf and by M&N Harhart in the second edition and are different again in the third edition