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

‘An Essay of Health and Long Life’. George Cheyne. ‘Printed for George Strahan, at the Golden Ball over-against the Royal Exhange in Cornhill; and J. Leake, Bookseller at Bath’, London 1724. Bound in early full calf with tooled design to covers, raised bands to spine. Health advice with cricket reference on pp. 97-98, ‘To those that have Rheumatic Pains, to play at Billiards, Tennis or Cricket, till they sweat plentifully...’. Acquisition date in ink to title page, ‘10 July 1727’. Padwick 863-2. Early ink annotations throughout. Wear to boards, internally in very good condition.