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

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

Lot 614
Estimate: £80/100
Hammer: £85
‘Some Statistics or the Influences of the Weather on the Wicket, with a method for its elimination in the comparison of averages’. Bernard Dale. London 1891. 31pp. Bound in original red cloth with gilt title to front. Comprises comparisons of performances of Lohmann, Briggs, Attwell, Spofforth, Turner etc. with the fluctuations of the weather eliminated. Slipped in is a neatly handwritten page by F.S. Ashley-Cooper comparing statistics of runs scored at Lord’s, the Oval and ‘All Games’ from 1901 to 1929. Padwick 107. Some soiling and bumping to boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition.

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