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

General cricket books. Eight hardbacks (one softback) including ‘A Handbook of Cricket’. Edmund Routledge, two copies, one assumed to be first edition of 1862 in original pictorial yellow boards, replacement spine, and an 1867 edition in original blue/ red pictorial boards with later spine, both with varying degrees of wear and soiling. ‘Once A Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information’, Vol. VIII, December 1862 to June 1863, bound in quarter leather, raised bands to spine, marbled boards, page edges and endpapers. Cricket article pp 718-720. Breaking to front internal hinge. ‘Sportascrapiana. Cricket and Shooting...’, edited by ‘CAW’, London 1867, original green cloth with elaborate gilts to front and spine. ‘Gentlemen v. Players 1806-1949’, Pelham Warner, London 1950, very good condition with good dustwrapper, and others by E.H.D. Sewell, H.F. & A.P. Squire etc. Mixed condition, faults as described, generally good.