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

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

Lot 984
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £42
‘Hoyle’s Games Improved, being practical treatises on the following fashionable games viz whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard, lansquenet and billiards’. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq. A new edition enlarged’. London 1786. 306pp. Contains a chapter on the Laws of Cricket pp 239-243. Rebound in full leather, original leather covers laid down. Padwick 153 (this edition not listed). Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare

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