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

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

‘The All England Cricket & Football Journal and Athletic Review’ Volume One 1878. Issues nos. 1 (April 1877, first issue) to 12 (March 1878). Published by Martin Hurst of Sheffield. Bound volume of the Journal containing all twelve editions from April 1877 to March 1878, each issue featuring a real photograph portrait of a player or team to the front wrapper. The issues bound together in modern pale blue cloth with facsimile title label to front. Original large full page frontispiece real photograph portrait of ‘The Yorkshire Cricketers’ of 1878, title page, and index bound in to the front. Pages checked, complete. Small loss to first page of the February 1878 issue, tape repair to internal hinges of frontispiece and pp 94/95, otherwise in very good condition.
The Journal ran for 29 issues from April 1877 to October 1879. The players featured on the front wrapper portraits in this volume are W.G. Grace, George Pinder, Richard Daft, A.N. Hornby, The Surrey Cricketers, The Derbyshire Cricketers, G.F. Grace, John Keen, Samual Rawson, Ephraim Lockwood, Arthur Appleby Esq and Alexander Watson. Plus illustrations of C. Bannerman and W. Whitham.

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