Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 375
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £200
‘The Laws of the Noble Game of Cricket’. Printed laws sheet with mono engraving of an early cricket scene, published by John Wallis, 13 Warwick Street London, printed by L. Binns, London, 17th September 1785. The printed broadsheet setting out the laws of cricket across three columns beneath an engraved rural scene of the game of cricket with hand colouring. Printed on laid paper with pot & crescent watermark to paper. Framed and glazed, overall 12”x17.25”. Minor marks and slight discolouration otherwise in good condition. A rare early broadsheet
Laid paper was an early process of paper manufacture used from the 12th to the 19th century, its use diminished in the 19th century when the process changed to wove paper