Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Cricket engravings 1863-1896. A good selection of eleven original full page extracts, the majority from ‘The Illustrated Sporting News’. Includes five full pages dated 1863-1866, each featuring an engraving of a notable cricketer. Players depicted are ‘Tarrant, The Well-Known Cricketer’, ‘Robert Carptenter, The Cambridge Cricketer’, ‘R.C. Tinley, The Celebrated Nottingham Cricketer’, ‘R. Iddison, The Cricket Celebrity’, and ‘James Grundy, The famous Nottingham Cricketer’. Sold with a further selection of full page extracts featuring engravings or photographic images including ‘The Great Universities’ Cricket Match at Lord’s’ 1865, ‘The Nottingham Cricket Club Team’ 1884, ‘Cricket at Lord’s- Eton v Harrow’ 1870, ‘The Parsee Representative Cricket Team at Bombay’ 1890, and ‘A Champion Naval Cricket Team’ 1896. Also one tennis related photographic image of ‘International Tennis at Wimbledon, The American Team of Players’ 1905. The majority of pages measure 11”x16”. VG.