Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 1423
Estimate: £300/500
‘Sketches of the Players’. William Denison. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Rudolph Ackermann, R. Dark [and others], 1846. 76pp. Padwick 876. Bound in green boards with gilt titles to front board. There is an inscription to the title page from Alfred Gaston to E. Holmes ‘To my Esteemed friend E. Holmes Esq in deep appreciation of many years of kindness and courtesy the past 2 years. Alfred G. Gaston, 10a Hoollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton. August 1926’. Minor light foxing, lacking advertising pages at rear otherwise in good condition. Rare
First edition of the earliest collection of player biographies. Dedicated to ‘the Noblemen and Gentlemen, members of the Marylebone Cricket Club’, it is largely about Denison’s contemporaries, though beginning with the earlier figure of Alfred Mynn. Padwick 876 & 7201.