Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

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

Lot 1442
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: £55
‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It: a treatise on the game of Cricket...’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Baily Brothers, London 1861. iv, 96pp plus advertisements. Original green morocco covers with gilt illustration to front and tooled decoration, gilt title to spine. Padwick 398. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block. Fading to spine gilts, some wear to board extremities, internally in good condition.

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