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

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024

Lot 735
Estimate: £30/50
‘Patents for Inventions. Abridgments [sic] of Specifications relating to Toys, Games and Exercises A.D. 1672-1866’. Bennet Woodcroft. Published at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1871. Bound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, original blue paper wrappers retained. Includes twenty one patents for cricket equipment. Padwick 342-1. Small loss and tear to original front wrapper, otherwise in good condition.

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