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

‘Games and Sports; being an appendix to “Manly Exercises” and “Exercises for Ladies”’. Donald Walker. Joseph Thomas, ‘New Edition’, London 1840. Contains a section on cricket, pp 135-149, on how to play the game, the ground, the players, a diagram illustrating the fielding positions, details of the fielders’ roles, the laws of the game as amended in 1835 etc. A line drawing shows a game in progress. Bound in original leather with decorative tooled boards, title label to front with Latin inscription, gilt title to spine, speckled page edges, marbled end papers. Padwick 7059. Front internal hinge broken with cover detached. Some wear to boards, internally in very good condition.