Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 928
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £80
Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club. Two rare volumes of club histories. ‘Some Cricket Outings of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club in 1892... 1898 by their Hon. Sec’.
H. Joanes. Printed for private circulation only, London 1898. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page, ‘To W.H. Mauley with best wishes from the author. Tour Captain’s copy. October 1898’. ‘Cricket Tours of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club Second Series. Being a record of matches played in 1899... 1904’. Privately published 1904. Six annual parts with a further report on the ‘Home Cricket Week’ 1900, and a ‘Short Sketch of the History of the Goldsmith’s Institute Cricket Club 1891-1904’. Ink dedication to title page, ‘W.H. Mauley, In memory of many pleasant days spent in his company, by the author, H.J. Oct 1904’. Both volumes bound in matching original quarter leather and green cloth with replacement leather spines and gilt titles to spines. Pages to both volumes with decorative red borders, some illustrated with real photographs laid down. Ownership signature in ink to inside front cover of both volumes of the collector H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner. Padwick 1633. Very scarce, no copies noted at Lord’s or on Copac. Probably issued only to members. Very good condition.
H. Joanes. Printed for private circulation only, London 1898. Handwritten dedication in ink to title page, ‘To W.H. Mauley with best wishes from the author. Tour Captain’s copy. October 1898’. ‘Cricket Tours of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club Second Series. Being a record of matches played in 1899... 1904’. Privately published 1904. Six annual parts with a further report on the ‘Home Cricket Week’ 1900, and a ‘Short Sketch of the History of the Goldsmith’s Institute Cricket Club 1891-1904’. Ink dedication to title page, ‘W.H. Mauley, In memory of many pleasant days spent in his company, by the author, H.J. Oct 1904’. Both volumes bound in matching original quarter leather and green cloth with replacement leather spines and gilt titles to spines. Pages to both volumes with decorative red borders, some illustrated with real photographs laid down. Ownership signature in ink to inside front cover of both volumes of the collector H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner. Padwick 1633. Very scarce, no copies noted at Lord’s or on Copac. Probably issued only to members. Very good condition.