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

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1871. 8th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, complete. From the collection of ‘Charles W.A. Oakeley’. Handwritten annotation by Oakeley of lists of cricket teams and scores to the back of the title page and facing page, further lesser annotation to odd pages, foxing to a greater or lesser extent throughout the book and to page block edge otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of the ground at Canterbury. The ground was purchased by the county club from the 2nd Earl Sondes in 1896 and became Kent’s headquarters.