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

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Padwick 397. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Dedication in ink to title page to ‘Richard A. Beauchamp’ dated 27th July 1845, and an early inscription in ink to the first Addenda page of a revision to Law X relating to the bowling action. Some wear, staining and soiling to original boards, minor foxing otherwise in good/ very good condition.