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

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025

Lot 924
Estimate: £30/40
‘County Cricket Championship [1873-1894] with an Appendix on the Selection of An England Eleven’. By “Rover” (Alfred Gibson). Title page states published in London 1895 (first edition). Bound in later grey boards, gilt title to spine, original decorative paper wrappers preserved. ‘1896’ printed to top of front wrapper. Ownership name in ink to dedication page of F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Odd pencil annotations to pages, possibly in Ashley-Cooper’s hand. Padwick 904. Expert repairs to edges of some early pages, some age toning to pages throughout, otherwise in good condition.

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