Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026

Lot 1428
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: unsold
‘The Champion Cricketers’ Guide and Companion containing a plan of the cricket field, showing where you are to stand &c’. Published by R. March, London c.1865. Padwick 414 refers to a 32pp booklet and ‘several issues’ of which this 19pp edition plus the plan illustration is one. Tipped in to green cloth with original paper wrappers retained. Bookplates to inside front cover including A.E. Winder. D.R. Allen’s publication ‘With the Bookplate of A.E. Winder’ records Winder having bought this booklet from E.K. Brown in 1976 for £1. Expert repairs to small loss to corners of some pages, age toning throughout, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.

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