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

‘An Essay on Cricket, School Cricket Hints, Cricketer’s Progress, Reverie on Cricket, Cricket Practice and Club Management and The New Cricketer’s Guide: a Complete Manual of the Game of Cricket’. Published by Chas. Ward, Cricket Implement Merchant, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, c.1884. The two titles amalgamated into one printed volume by the publisher. Rebound in later green cloth with gilt title to spine, assumed lacking original wrappers. Padwick 427 & 376. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Splitting to page block, rust marks from original staples, otherwise in good condition. Sold with an original illustrated catalogue/ price list for C. Ward sports outfitter for 1902 in original wrappers. Rusting to staples, adhesive marks to p21, otherwise good. Also ‘Cricket. A Catalogue Of An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts and Pictorial Records.... Arranged by Diana Rait Kerr’, Cambridge 1950. Ownership name in ink to inside front cover of C.I.S. Wallace, dated 1950. Minor wear to spine, otherwise in good condition. Qty 3.