Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 723
Estimate: £350/450
‘Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1903’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1904. Fourth year of issue (there being none issued in 1900) of which only thirty copies were produced, this being copy number sixteen. 51pp. Bound in blue cloth and marbled boards, gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. Presentation copy signed in ink to limitation page by Ashley-Cooper and dated 1904. Padwick 920. Original front wrapper cleanly detached, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.
This was the fourth in a series of limited edition booklets compiled by Ashley-Cooper, issued between 1899 and 1906, comprising articles first serialised in ‘Cricket’ magazine.