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

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

Lot 1027
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £300
‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition bound in black half leather, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original black boards with gilt lettering. Replacement spine and endpapers, the original spine paper laid down. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author, Grace, this being no. 428. Bookplate of the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, to front endpaper. Some rubbing to board extremities, otherwise a nice copy, internally in good/ very good condition.
Subscriber number 428 was Charles Marshall of Holland Park, London.

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