Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 1440
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer: £28
‘The Rural Game of Cricket’. University of Reading Museum of English Rural Life 1957. Nine page typescript of the ‘Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibition, August to October 1957’ with introduction written by Diana Rait Kerr, curator of the M.C.C. Collection. The catalogue lists items loaned by the M.C.C., Hal Cohen, E.R. Wilson, Gunn & Moore etc. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, probably for John Arlott who sold it to A.E. Winder in 1979 with Winder’s bookplate laid down to inside front cover. Padwick 337. Good condition. Sold with ‘Quilt Winders and Pod Shavers. The History of Cricket Bat and Ball Manufacture’, Hugh Barty-King, London 1979 in good dustwrapper. Very good condition. Qty 2.


