Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 1794
Estimate: £40/60
‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Houlston and Wright, second edition, London 1865 ‘Hand Books of Field and River Sports’. viii, 96pp. Original decorative cloth covers with printed title to spine. Sale plate of H.A.L. Cohen to inside front cover. Padwick 398. Breaking to front internal hinges, crease to one internal page. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise in good condition.
W.R. Wright, of Houlston and Wright, who published this edition, went on to be the scorecard printer at The Oval and later a major publisher of cricket books and magazines including ‘Cricket A Weekly Record’.