Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026

Lot 1790
Estimate: £150/250
‘The English Game of Cricket: Comprising a Digest of its Origin, Character, History and Progress...’. Charles Box. London 1877. Original decorative green cloth with titles in gilt to front and spine, gilt illustration to front, all page edges gilt. Signed presentation copy with handwritten dedication in ink to title page ‘G.H. Blackwell Esq. from C. Box (for a Auld Lang Syne), 13th May 1877’. Wear to board and spine extremities, breaking to internal hinges, internally in good/ very good condition. A rare signed copy.

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