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

‘The Noble Game of Cricket. Illustrated and described from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman at Gatton Park, Surrey. With an introduction by Clifford Bax’. Published for the collector by B.T. Batsford, London. 1941. 105 plates, some coloured and mounted. Original green buckram with gilt lettering and decoration, with top edge gilt with original dustwrapper, some tape repairs to underside edges of the dustwrapper. Published in an edition of 150 copies of which 100 were for sale. The other fifty were for ‘the Collector’. Stamp ‘Kent C.C.C. Committee Room’ to front end paper, good/ very good condition. Tucked into the front board is the rarely seen original four page folded advertising card from 1941 produced. by B.T. Batsford announcing the publication of the de luxe book at a price of £5-5-0.