Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 626
Estimate: £200/300
Kent County Cricket Club 1865. ‘The Canterbury Cricket Week. An authentic narrative of the origin and career of the institution; including the programmes of The Old Stagers’ Performances... Volume First’. Printed and published by William Davey, Canterbury 1865. First (and only) edition. Original red cloth, with gilt titles, and coloured and gilt border bands, all edges gilt. Coloured decorative half-title page. Includes seventeen real photographs on five plates of players and officials. Photographs include N. Felix, F. Ponsonby, S. Ponsonby, J.L. Baldwin etc. Padwick 2084. Later replacement spine. Some soiling to boards, foxing to decorative half title page, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A scarce volume.
The book covers the Canterbury Cricket Week between 1843 and 1851. For each week details are given of the cricket matches played between sides such as ‘The Gentlemen of England’ and ‘The Gentlemen of Kent; plus the Kent county team. A commentary on the social events during each week is then followed by a precis of Old Stagers’ productions performed to amuse the cricket followers once play had ended for the day including a selection of farces and extravaganzas. Volume II was never published.