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

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 939
Estimate: £700/1000
Hammer: £650
‘The Cricket Player’s Pocket Companion containing plans for laying out the Grounds, Forming Clubs...’. Published by Mayhew & Baker, Boston 1860, appears to be third edition. 34pp with a frontispiece engraving of ‘The Cricket Field’. The booklet, in original cloth wrappers and pictorial gilt to front. Padwick 386-1. Some light fading, minor creasing and staining to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.
Padwick lists only two editions, published in 1858 and 1859.

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