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

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

Lot 545
Estimate: £8000/12000
Hammer: unsold
‘Gauntlet’s Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper at the rear of the book, lacking rear wrapper. Some light foxing to some outer pages at front and rear. An extremely rare cricket annual
According to Padwick lot 1978, Gauntlet’s Cricketers Record was produced in 1859 and 1860 but many collectors feel that there was only the one issue

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