Catalogue for the auction of
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks
and Cricket Books
Held on Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th September 2024
Lot 531
Estimate: £500/700
Hammer: £460
Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1906’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1907. Seventh year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number 20. 63pp plus iv. Original pale blue paper wrappers bound in marbled half leather boards with gilt titles to spine. Padwick 920. Small loss to foot of spine paper. Light age toning to pale wrappers otherwise in very good/excellent condition. Rare
This was the seventh in a series of limited edition booklets compiled by Ashley-Cooper, issued between 1899 and 1906, comprising articles first serialised in ‘Cricket’ magazine, 20th September 1906 to 28th March 1907. Includes records of the second West Indies tour to England.