Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 813
Estimate: £80/120
‘Clifton College Cricket Records. 1863 to 1891’. Edited by E.L. Fox. Bristol 1892. 79pp. Original decorative stiffened card boards with later replacement spine, preserved in modern grey box. Comprises scores and averages for players including K.J. Key, E.F.S. Tylecote, C.E. Horner etc. Padwick 1395. Minor soiling to original boards, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Scarce. Sold with ‘Scores of the Cricket Matches between Eton & Harrow from the beginning up to date’. Edited by Franklyn Brook. London 1900. 87pp. Original pale blue cloth with decorative front cover. Ownership signature of Francis E. Lacey to front endpaper. Padwick 1438. Some soiling to boards, internally in very good condition.
Francis Lacey played fifty first-class matches for Hampshire and Cambridge University 1880-1897, and was Secretary of the M.C.C. and President of Hampshire. A.C. Maclaren, who went on to captain England 1897-1909, played for Harrow in the matches from 1887 to 1890.