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

‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’. C.W. Alcock. Published by Hudson & Kearns of London 1895. Bound in contemporary green cloth boards with gilt/ leather title label to spine, red speckled page edges. Title page and index bound in preceded by, unusually, a page nicely signed in black ink by eight notable cricketers with the handwritten title ‘We have enjoyed the perusal of this book’. Signatures are George Geary, Ernest Tyldesley, Patsy Hendren, Harold Larwood, Fred Root, George Duckworth, J.W. Hearne and Jack Hobbs. Also ownership name of ‘T.S. Barnwell[?]’. The signature page with foxing, small loss and some wear to edges. Some wear to board extremities, otherwise in good condition.