'Close of Play'
Catalogue for the auction of items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders
Held on Saturday 13th September 2025 at
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 398
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Black quarter leather with brown cloth, gilts titles and illustration to cover and spine, gilt to top edge. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 31. Subscriber number 31 was J.W. Arrowsmith of Bristol, the well known book publisher. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition
Richard Daft was one of the finest batsmen of his day, playing 254 matches for Nottinghamshire scoring 9788 runs at an average of 25.42. He wrote ‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’ the year after he retired, which was published in 1893. By 1900 his health had deteriorated and he died bankrupt
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 398
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £110
Richard Daft was one of the finest batsmen of his day, playing 254 matches for Nottinghamshire scoring 9788 runs at an average of 25.42. He wrote ‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’ the year after he retired, which was published in 1893. By 1900 his health had deteriorated and he died bankrupt