Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Felix on the Bat: Being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat: together with the history and use of the catapulta. Also, The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club’. Nicholas Wanostrocht. First edition. London 1845. Forty pages plus addenda and advertising pages to rear, with ten lithograph plates (seven hand-coloured, three mono). Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Presentation copy with handwritten dedication by Wanostrocht in ink to title page ‘Presented by the author to John Ferguson Esq’. Bookplate of E.K. Brown to inside front cover. Padwick 397. Some wear, staining and soiling to original boards, expert repairs to internal hinges, replacement spine, otherwise in good/ very good condition.