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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club. Two rare volumes of club histories. ‘Some Cricket Outings of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club in 1892... 1898 by their Hon. Sec’. H. Joanes. Printed for private circulation only, London 1898. Also ‘Cricket Tours of the Goldsmiths’ Institute Cricket Club Second Series. Being a record of matches played in 1899... 1904’. Six annual parts and a further ‘Short Sketch of the History of the Goldsmith’s Institute’ illustrated with two real photographs depicting ‘The Cricket Ground at Dorking’ and ‘The Tour Team at Dorking’ 1904. Both titles similarly bound in stiffened card boards, green cloth spines, and printed titles to fronts, each with handwritten dedication in ink to the title page to ‘Helen [Joanes]’ from her ‘Dad, The Author’, dated 1898 and 1904 respectively. In both volumes each page has decorative red borders. Padwick 1633. Very scarce, no copies noted at Lord’s or on Copac. Probably issued only to members. Minor wear to boards, otherwise in very good condition.