Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 903
Estimate: £130/160
New Zealand Cricketers’ Annual 1895. Edited by ‘Trundler’ Thames (William Henry Newton). Abel, Dykes & Co. Auckland 1895. Rebound with replacement boards incorporating the original front cover, green leather spine and endpapers. Gilt titles to front and spine, lacking original paper wrappers. Red speckled page edges. Rare first edition of the publication which lasted until 1898 (four years). Contains an account of the tour by Fiji to New Zealand, Stoddart’s team in Australia etc. Ink inscription to original front endpaper ‘Presentation Copy to J.S. Udal, Inner Temple’, from the author and dated 1895. Good/ very good condition.
It is presumed that this copy was presented to John Symonds Udal, a barrister at the Inner Temple, London, who played nine first-class matches for M.C.C. and Fiji 1871-1895, and was a playing member of the Fiji tour to New Zealand in 1894/95.