Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 1659
Estimate: £100/150
‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’. Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Black quarter leather with brown cloth, gilt titles and illustration to cover, gilt to top edge. Replacement leather spine and endpapers. Limited large paper subscribers’ edition of 150 copies, signed and numbered by Daft, this being no. 142. Subscriber number 142 was T.F. Rider of Stockwell, London. Some wear to original boards, otherwise in good/very good condition.
Richard Daft was one of the finest batsmen of his day, playing 254 matches for Nottinghamshire scoring 9788 runs at an average of 25.42. He wrote ‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes and Reminiscences from 1858 to 1892’ the year after he retired, which was published in 1893. By 1900 his health had deteriorated and he died bankrupt.