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

Boys’ cricket. Four early hardback titles of which three are in original cloth covers with elaborate pictorial and/or tooled gilt decoration to covers and spines. Titles are ‘The Boy’s Own Book: a Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports and Pastimes, London 1868. ‘The Book of Manly Games for Boys’, Captain Crawley, London 1870, gilt to page edges. ‘The Summer Playground’, Charles Spencer Hayward, London 1902, gilt to page edges, foxing to pages. Also ‘Twenty Five Cricket Stories’, authors include P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur D. Wood, D.L.A. Jephson etc., London c.1909, rebound in modern red cloth. Some wear and rubbing to original covers, otherwise in generally good condition.