Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 910
Estimate: £40/60
‘Stoolball and How to Play It’. W.W. Grantham. Published by W.B. Tattersall. Second edition, London 1931. Illustrated, with scores of some matches played at Lord’s. Forty copies of this edition, this copy being number 11, were specially bound in quarter leather in 1948 ‘as a small tribute to [Grantham’s] memory’. Ownership signature in pencil to front endpaper of F.C. Murray, dated 1965. Not listed in Padwick. Very good condition.
Pre-dating cricket, stoolball is thought to have originated in Sussex and continues to be popular with ladies, with leagues in Sussex, Kent, Surrey and the Midlands. On his death in 1942, Grantham bequeathed money for the promotion of the game.