Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 722
Estimate: £400/600
‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1901’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1902. Second year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number seventeen. 60pp. Bound in green cloth, title to front, original pale blue front paper wrapper retained, lacking rear wrapper. Signed presentation copy with dedication in ink to limitation page in Ashley-Cooper’s own hand to ‘A.L. Ford, Esq.’. Rare bookplate of Ford to inside front board, and M.C.C. Library to front endpaper. Padwick 920. Slight damage to lower edge of front wrapper, title page and endpaper, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.
This was the second in a series of limited edition booklets compiled by Ashley-Cooper, issued between 1899 and 1906, comprising articles first serialised in ‘Cricket’ magazine. Notable records in the English cricket season of 1901 include thirteen centuries by C.B. Fry, nine by J.T. Tyldesley, and K.S. Ranjitsinhji who made eight including two consecutive double centuries of 284no and 204. Top bowlers were W.M. Bradley and J. Sharp who both took nine wickets in an innings, and George Hirst of Yorkshire who took seven wickets in an innings on no less than seven occasions.