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

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

Lot 615
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £22
‘Cricket. Its Theory and Practice by Captain Crawley’. G.F. Pardon. Chambers’s Useful Hand-Books, London, first edition 1865. Original red decorative wrappers with engraving of a cricket scene to front. Tipped in to modern green cloth. Ownership name in ink to page facing title page of ‘Charles C. Coles 1865’, and in pencil of A.D. Taylor to reverse of title page. Padwick 461. Fading and wear to original wrappers, some staining to pages, otherwise in good condition.

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