Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 1450
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer: £120
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. Third edition. London 1855. x, 74pp, with seven colour lithograph plates. Original decorative green cloth covers with gilt titles and cricket scene image to front, page edges gilt. Bookplate of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover. Padwick 397. Some wear, staining and soiling to original boards, front gilts a little worn, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
Interestingly the book is slightly smaller than the first and second editions which are of uniform size. The plates in the second edition are different to the first edition, the first edition by C. Graf and by M&N Harhart in the second edition, and are different again in the third edition.