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Auction archive: Lot number 7

BOX, Charles. The English Game of Cricket , London: The Field, 1877, 4°, FIRST EDITION, H. S. ALTHAM'S COPY with his pencil signature and inscription "Winchester College, February 1922" to front free endpaper (earlier inscription partly erased), and ...

Auction 22.09.1995
22 Sep 1995
Estimate
£120 - £180
ca. US$186 - US$280
Price realised:
£675
ca. US$1,051
Auction archive: Lot number 7

BOX, Charles. The English Game of Cricket , London: The Field, 1877, 4°, FIRST EDITION, H. S. ALTHAM'S COPY with his pencil signature and inscription "Winchester College, February 1922" to front free endpaper (earlier inscription partly erased), and ...

Auction 22.09.1995
22 Sep 1995
Estimate
£120 - £180
ca. US$186 - US$280
Price realised:
£675
ca. US$1,051
Beschreibung:

BOX, Charles. The English Game of Cricket , London: The Field, 1877, 4°, FIRST EDITION, H. S. ALTHAM'S COPY with his pencil signature and inscription "Winchester College, February 1922" to front free endpaper (earlier inscription partly erased), and with loosely-inserted 2-PAGE LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO ROBERT STRATTEN HOLMES, 3 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved vignettes, original cloth gilt (spine and corners worn) [Padwick 799] -- Richard DAFT. Kings of Cricket , introduction by Andrew Lang, Bristol & London: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1893], 8°, FIRST EDITION, with loosely-inserted 4-PAGE LETTER FROM LORD HARRIS TO THE AUTHOR, collotype plates, original cloth (worn, front inner hinges split). [Padwick 903] With Charles Box's The Theory and Practice of Cricket (1868, spine worn) and George Giffen's With Bat and Ball (1898). (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

BOX, Charles. The English Game of Cricket , London: The Field, 1877, 4°, FIRST EDITION, H. S. ALTHAM'S COPY with his pencil signature and inscription "Winchester College, February 1922" to front free endpaper (earlier inscription partly erased), and with loosely-inserted 2-PAGE LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR TO ROBERT STRATTEN HOLMES, 3 wood-engraved plates, wood-engraved vignettes, original cloth gilt (spine and corners worn) [Padwick 799] -- Richard DAFT. Kings of Cricket , introduction by Andrew Lang, Bristol & London: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1893], 8°, FIRST EDITION, with loosely-inserted 4-PAGE LETTER FROM LORD HARRIS TO THE AUTHOR, collotype plates, original cloth (worn, front inner hinges split). [Padwick 903] With Charles Box's The Theory and Practice of Cricket (1868, spine worn) and George Giffen's With Bat and Ball (1898). (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
22 Sep 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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