Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England... Rural and Domestic Recreations.... from the earliest period to the present time’. Joseph Strutt. Originally published in 1801, this is ‘A new edition, much enlarged and corrected by J. Charles Cox’, published by Methuen, London 1903. Bound in dark green cloth, gilt leather title label to spine, gilt to top page edges. Cricket appears on pages 100-104, as part of a chapter on ball games, which includes many of the precursors to cricket such as club ball, trap ball and stool ball. Padwick 836. Slight breaking to internal hinges, foxing to endpapers, title page and page edges, otherwise in good condition.