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Lot 902
Estimate: £80/120
‘The Ibis Magazine [and Journal of the Prudential Clerks’ Society]’. Three bound volumes of extracts from issues of the magazine, printed for private circulation, recording the scores and activities of the Ibis Cricket Club covering the period 1909 to 1939. The two earlier volumes similarly bound in half calf and cloth boards, raised bands and gilt/ leather title labels to spines, the first octavo size, the other quarto. The third bound in beige cloth with title label to spine, quarto size. Some original wrappers bound in. All three volumes with ownership signature of the Kent collector, H.W. ‘Plum’ Warner, the two earlier volumes additionally with the bookplate of J.W. Goldman. Some rubbing to boards, nick to spines, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
The Ibis Cricket Club was founded in 1870 as the Prudential Assurance Cricket Club, initially based in Battersea, London. It was established as a corporate sports club for employees of the Prudential Assurance Company. The Club changed its name to ‘Ibis’ in 1872.


