Knight's Sporting Auctions 'Close of Play'. Items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders (#20) 13/09/2025 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 13/09/2025 10:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 481-490 of 500. Previous|1...4344454647484950|Next Lot #481 ‘The Laws of Cricket as revised by the Marylebone Cricket Club, London [In Gujarati]. Printed by Surat Airish Mission Printing Press 1903, price 6 pais. 16pp booklet with original pink card wrappers. Comprises a translation of the Laws, printed in Gujarati with title and some footnotes in English, diagram of field placings. Preserved in a grey paper envelope with typed titles from the collection of Leslie Gutteridge who bought the item from the M.C.C. in 1954 having been previously in the Cahn o View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #482 ‘The Woe of Lough Derg’. Heber Coghlan. Purcell and Company, Cork 1898. 52pp. Original black cloth covers with gilt title to front. Inscribed in ink to the front endpaper, ‘To Fanny Swanton from the Author, July 1898’. An account in verse celebrating the lives of two brothers, Charles Henry and Augustus Irwin, sons of the Reverend Augustus Coghlan, Rector of the parish of Mountshannon on the shores of Lough Derg in Ireland. The brothers, who drowned when their yacht foundered in a squall on the View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #483 ‘Some Recollections of Cricket’. Lord Charles J.F. Russell. H.G. Fisher, Woburn 1879. Small 8vo, 39pp, original red cloth with title in black to front cover. Presentation inscription in black ink to half-title page to ‘Arthur Watson[Wilson?]’ signed with indecipherable initials, probably not Russell. The book is dedicated to Hon. Frederick Ponsonby and Hon. Robert Grimston with contents including ‘A Dream of the Past’ and ‘Round-Arm Recollections’, both reprinted from Bailey’s magazine, ‘Lord’s View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsold Lot #484 ‘Woburn Echoes’. Lord Charles J.F. Russell. H.G. Fisher, Woburn 1881. 262pp. Original green cloth with title in gilt to front cover, gilt to all page edges. Comprises a collection of essays by Russell covering subjects titled Political, Social, Cricket and Hunting, most reprinted from magazines or from speeches given by Russell. The cricket section includes four of the five pieces from ‘Some Recollections’ (published in 1879) with some changes to the text from the originals, ‘Round-Arm Recollect View details Estimates£350 - £450StatusUnsold Lot #485 ‘The Fixed Period’. Anthony Trollope. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1882 ‘In two volumes’. A nice set of the two volume first edition of Trollope’s novel, originally published in Blackwood’s magazine 1881-1882, handsomely rebound in modern quarter leather and brown cloth, gilt titles, decorations and raised bands to spines, marbled endpapers. Set in the future (1980) it concerns the island nation of Britannula somewhere in the Pacific, populated by ‘The elite of New Zealand’. View details Estimates£600 - £800StatusUnsold Lot #486 ‘The Life of the late Earl of Barrymore. Including a History of the Wargrave Theatricals, and Original Anecdotes of Eminent Persons’. Anthony Pasquin. H.D. Symonds, London 1793. Third edition, ‘Corrected and much enlarged’. Rebound in modern marbled boards with leather spine, gilt title to spine. Barrymore’s interest in cricket is referred to in passing on page 8, with more on his passion for the game on page 85, ‘during the last three years of his life, he became an indefatigable cricketer... h View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #487 ‘Surry [sic] Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody on Chevy-Chace’. John Duncombe. Printed for J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Rebound in half green leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title to spine. Woodcut vignette to title page. The match, instigated by the Earl of Tankerville, took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July 1773, for £2000. Page A2 gives the scores of the two innings, showing Surrey triumph View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning Bid£2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #488 ‘The Abbey of Kilhampton; or Monumental Records for the year 1980. Faithfully transcribed from the Original Inscriptions, which are still perfect, and appear to be drawn up in a stile [sic] devoid of fulsome panegyric, or unmerited detraction’. Sir Herbert Croft. Printed for G. Kearsly at No. 46 in Fleet-Street, London 1780. A collection of satirical epitaphs of notable people in three sections, the first part being ‘The Eighth Edition, with considerable Additions’ comprising pp (iv),1-82, the s View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #489 ‘The Wreck of Westminster Abbey alias The Year Two Thousand, alias The Ordeal of Sepulchral Candour... being a selection from the Monumental Records of the most Conspicuous Personages’ by the Author of Kilhampton Abbey (Sir Herbert Croft). Eighth edition 1788 ‘with considerable Additions, ornamented with a Characteristic Frontispiece [dated 21st May 1788], and a Description thereof’. The title page dated ‘MMI [2001]’. 60pp. Rebound in modern quarter green morocco with marbled boards, gilt title View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #490 ‘The Noble Cricketers: A poetical and familiar epistle, address’d to Two of the Idlest Lords in His Majesty’s Three Kingdoms’. Published by J. Bew, No. 28 Paternoster Row, London 1778. First and only edition. pp (iv),22. Rebound in blue buckram for the M.C.C. with M.C.C. colours to covers, gilt title to spine. M.C.C. bookplates to inside front cover and front endpaper. Original errata slip pasted to rear of the Dedication page. The lengthy poem is written anonymously and satirises two cricketing View details Estimates£6,000 - £9,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...4344454647484950|Next1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next
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