Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#23) 10/04/2026 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 10/04/2026 10:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Lots per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime leftLotLot nameNewestHighest priceLowest priceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1441-1450 of 1648. Previous|1...143144145146147148...165|Next Lot #1433 ‘The Catalogue of Cricket Literature’. Alfred D. Taylor. Merritt & Hatcher, London, first edition 1906. [v], 115pp interleaved. Rebound in modern green half leather and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title to spine, original paper wrappers retained. The first comprehensive bibliography of cricket to be published, comprising detailed notes and estimated values of many titles. First published in serial form in ‘Cricket, A Weekly Record of the Game’ in 1906 with supplements in 1907, 1908 and View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1434 ‘Ireland’s Gardens [Brighton] and its Cricket Associations’. Alfred D. Taylor. Privately printed 1899. Bound in blue cloth boards with original black limp cloth covers preserved. This was one of fifty uncorrected proof copies produced, ‘Not Printed’ to title page with handwritten annotation ‘Uncorrected Proof Copy No. 36’. Comprises a history of Ireland’s Gardens, being ‘the centre of attraction, the venue for recreation, and a fashionable resort in the early days of Brighton’s history’. Padwick View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1435 ‘Lillywhite’s Illustrated Hand-Book of Cricket’. Edited by ‘A Cantab [F. W. Lillywhite]’. Ackermann & Co., Strand, London, and W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, Brighton 1844. Printed by Thomas Harrild (Late B. Clarke), Printer, Silver St., Falcon Sq. Bound in original green tooled cloth with nice bright gilt title to front. Includes single page engravings of Lillywhite, Fuller Pilch, Thomas Box, and James Cobbett, and fold-out engravings of Roger Kynaston, George Leopold Langdon, Charles George T View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning bid£950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1436 A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Marylebone Club, and all other Principal Matches, from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive...’. Henry Bentley. Printed by T. Traveller, 43 Park Street, New Road, London 1823. Bound in green half calf leather and cloth, raised bands, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt to top page edges, marbled endpapers. Bookplates of J.W. Goldman to inside front cover and E.D.R. Eagar to front endpaper. The Goldman endplate annotated i View details Estimate£250 - £350Winning bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1437 ‘Poems on Several Occasions’, James Love, Comedian (James Dance). Printed by R. Fleming. Third edition, Edinburgh 1754. xvi, 115pp. Pages 1-22 comprise a poem titled ‘Cricket, An Heroic Poem’, considered to be one of the earliest description of a cricket match. Rebound in half calf with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Padwick 6445. Expert repair to title page. Light staining and wear to pages, otherwise in remarkably goo View details Estimate£600 - £900Winning bid£500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1438 ‘Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus... by James Love, Comedian’. James Dance. Printed for the Author, London 1770. Fourth edition. iv, 30pp. Dedicated ‘To the Members of the Cricket Club, at Richmond, in Surrey’. The first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. The mock heroic couplets describe the match between Kent and England played on the Artillery Ground on the View details Estimate£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1439 Cricket poetry and prose. Four hardbacks including two Arrowsmith of Bristol titles in brown cloth, ‘At the Sign of The Wicket’, Edmund B.V. Christian, Bristol 1894, and ‘Cricket Stories: Wise and Otherwise’, C.W. Alcock, Bristol 1901. Sold with ‘The Cricket Match. A Poem in two cantos’, Copthall Chambers, London 1859, rebound in green quarter leather, and ‘Cricket Love & Humour. Tales Told of Balls Bowled’, Walter A. Briscoe, London 1921, ex libris Gerald Brodribb, pictorial stiffened boards. M View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1440 ‘The Rural Game of Cricket’. University of Reading Museum of English Rural Life 1957. Nine page typescript of the ‘Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibition, August to October 1957’ with introduction written by Diana Rait Kerr, curator of the M.C.C. Collection. The catalogue lists items loaned by the M.C.C., Hal Cohen, E.R. Wilson, Gunn & Moore etc. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title to spine, probably for John Arlott who sold it to A.E. Winder in 1979 with Winder’s bookplate laid down to inside fro View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1441 ‘The Adventures of a Cricket Ball with the Laws and Practice of Cricket’ by ‘An Old Boy’. London and Tunbridge Wells 1860. Original pictorial green stiffened board covers, later cloth spine with title annotated to spine. vi, 66pp plus advertisements. Illustrated. Comprises an account of ‘Harry’, his romance on the cricket field culminating in marriage, followed by the technique and rules of the game. Ownership signature of C.I.S. Wallace dated 1950 to inside front cover. Padwick 5947. Some wear View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #1442 ‘The Cricket-Bat; and How to Use It: a treatise on the game of Cricket...’. By ‘An Old Cricketer’. Baily Brothers, London 1861. iv, 96pp plus advertisements. Original green morocco covers with gilt illustration to front and tooled decoration, gilt title to spine. Padwick 398. Slight breaking to internal hinges and page block. Fading to spine gilts, some wear to board extremities, internally in good condition. 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