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

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, complete. Light foxing to the title and the ‘contents’ pages and to a lesser extent some further pages within the book otherwise in good/very good condition. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. 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