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

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

Lot 554
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer: £480
‘The Tour of the Australian Eleven through England, America and the Colonies with Conway’s Australian Cricketers’ Annual for 1877-78’. Melbourne. Fergusson & Moore 1879. Bound without original wrappers in half calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. 400pp. Small hole to the title page, minor foxing and odd stain otherwise in good/very good condition. Small library stamp for ‘A.C.S. Dean Chamberlin Libary’ to two internal pages. A scarce cricket tour book
The volume includes four chapters on the 1878 tour of England, the first tour which was managed by Conway

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