Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 754
Estimate: £150/250
‘Annals of Cricket’. W.W. Read. Sampson Low, London 1896. Original quarter vellum over dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Contents on handmade paper, untrimmed edges. Top edge gilt. Limited edition number 26 in the deluxe edition of 250 copies, nicely signed in ink to the limitation page by Read. Padwick 911. Sold with an original unused copy of the wrappers for the standard edition of the book. Good/very good condition. Rare
Many copies of the limited edition were not signed by Read. Walter William Read played eighteen matches for England and was considered one of the best batsmen of the 1880s.