Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 942
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £900
‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ 1879. Volume III (final volume). Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing all five issues, nos. 25-29, May 1879 to September & October 1879, each with original wrappers featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The issues bound together as one volume in brown cloth with gilt title to front. Padwick 1178. Minor creasing to the issues, otherwise in very good condition.
The Journal ran for 29 issues in three volumes from April 1877 to October 1879. The players featured on the front wrapper portraits in this volume are Lord Harris’s Anglo-Australian Team, William McIntyre, Edward Pooley, James Lillywhite, and William R. Gilbert.