Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 918
Estimate: £60/90
‘Young Troublesome; or Master Jacky’s Holidays’. Designed and etched by John Leech. London 1850. Comprises twelve pages of humorous hand coloured illustrations printed on one side of each leaf in landscape format. Page four depicts children playing a game of cricket ‘in the drawing room’, a large ornate jug in glass case being shattered by the ball. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original decorative stiffened card wrappers preserved. Padwick 6985. Wear to the original wrappers, internally in good condition.
John Leech (1817-1864) was a caricaturist and illustrator best known for his work for Punch.