Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The Cricketers of Vanity Fair’. Excellent collection of twenty seven original colour chromolithographs of cricketers, as listed by John Arlott in ‘The Cricketer’, August 1953 and J.W. Goldman’s additional list published in ‘The Cricketer’ in September 1953. The cricketers are Grace, Spofforth, Lord Harris, Bonnor, A. Lyttelton, Philipson, Lord Hawke, Fry, Baldwin, Lord Chelmsford, Ranjitsinhji, Jessop, Jephson, Abel, Jackson, Palairet, Warner, Bosanquet, Lord Dalmeny, Hayward, Tyldesley, Wells, Spencer Ponsonby and the rarer E.W. Dillon plus J.R. Mason (Supplement to the World) by Spy and the two principal artists being Carlo Pellegrini ‘Ape’ and Leslie Ward ‘Spy’. The chromolithograph of Dillon with printed caption ‘The Champion County’ and ‘Mr E. W. Dillon’ printed in full to lower border. The chromolithographs are all mainly mounted and all framed and glazed. Some age toning, minor marks and minor wrinkling to the odd print, minor light fading the Grace image otherwise in good condition. Qty 27. Sold with related Vanity Fair literature, ‘The Vanity Fair Gallery’. A Collector’s Guide to the Caricatures’. Jerold J. Savory. New Jersey 1978, ‘The Cricketers of Vanity Fair’. Russell March 1982 and The Jockeys of Vanity Fair’. Russell March 1985. A good selection of cricketing Vanity Fair lithographs and associated ephemera