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

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1879. 16th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, lacking four advertising pages at the rear otherwise complete. Light foxing to the title page and to some further pages within the book, odd very minor ink annotation in the book otherwise in good/very good condition. 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 and became Kent’s headquarters.