Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 739
Estimate: £70/100
‘An Account of all The Cricket Matches played between Eton and Westminster; Westminster and Charterhouse; Rugby and Marlborough; and Marlborough and Cheltenham. By the compiler of the Harrow, Eton, and Winchester School Matches from 1805 [Arthur Haygarth]’. Published by F. Lillywhite and Wisden, London 1857. Bound in modern blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original pink card wrappers retained. Comprises the first original 14pp followed by an additional 23pp with neatly handwritten and newspaper cuttings of accounts of matches from 1857 to 1870. Ownership name in ink to title page, ‘Oldfield, E. Coll, Exon. 1861’. Sale plate of H.A. Cohen to inside front original wrapper. Padwick 1349. Some wear to original wrappers, otherwise in good condition.
‘Oldfield’ may refer to Christopher Campbell Oldfield who played for Exeter College, Oxford, in 1859, having previously attended Eton College. He played four first-class matches 1864-1873.