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WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 [-1866]. London: John Wisden, 1864-1866. 3 volumes in one, 8º (148 x 91mm). (First 18pp. of 1864 with waterstain at upper margin, end leaves of 1866 a little creased at lower corners.) Contemporary green calf, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges (rebacked with old spine laid down, corners bumped, without wrappers); modern yellow cloth case. Provenance: H.R. Reynolds -- Rev. C. Wollery-Dod, 17 June 1873 (ownership signatures on front free endpaper).
WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 [-1866]. London: John Wisden, 1864-1866. 3 volumes in one, 8º (148 x 91mm). (First 18pp. of 1864 with waterstain at upper margin, end leaves of 1866 a little creased at lower corners.) Contemporary green calf, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges (rebacked with old spine laid down, corners bumped, without wrappers); modern yellow cloth case. Provenance: H.R. Reynolds -- Rev. C. Wollery-Dod, 17 June 1873 (ownership signatures on front free endpaper).
WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 [-1866]. London: John Wisden, 1864-1866. 3 volumes in one, 8º (148 x 91mm). (First 18pp. of 1864 with waterstain at upper margin, end leaves of 1866 a little creased at lower corners.) Contemporary green calf, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges (rebacked with old spine laid down, corners bumped, without wrappers); modern yellow cloth case. Provenance: H.R. Reynolds -- Rev. C. Wollery-Dod, 17 June 1873 (ownership signatures on front free endpaper).
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No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. The Property of Herbert and Bernard Gadney by direct descent This collection of Wisden, a complete run from 1864 to 2014, was started by Herbert Gadney (1874-1946) whose antiquarian bookshop was at 2-3 Turl Street, Oxford; living in Polstead Road, he was the neighbour and friend of T.E. Lawrence. His son Bernard Gadney (1909-2000), an England rugby football captain and scrumhalf, and later preparatory school headmaster, continued the collection. Awarded 14 international caps, he began the move which led to Prince Alexander Obolensky's try at Twickenham against the All Blacks in 1936, still considered to be the greatest try ever on that ground; his is the first name on Twickenham Museum's Rugby Wall of Fame. The collection has since passed by direct descent to the present owner.
WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 [-1866]. London: John Wisden, 1864-1866. 3 volumes in one, 8º (148 x 91mm). (First 18pp. of 1864 with waterstain at upper margin, end leaves of 1866 a little creased at lower corners.) Contemporary green calf, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges (rebacked with old spine laid down, corners bumped, without wrappers); modern yellow cloth case. Provenance: H.R. Reynolds -- Rev. C. Wollery-Dod, 17 June 1873 (ownership signatures on front free endpaper).

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WISDEN, John. The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864 [-1866]. London: John Wisden, 1864-1866. 3 volumes in one, 8º (148 x 91mm). (First 18pp. of 1864 with waterstain at upper margin, end leaves of 1866 a little creased at lower corners.) Contemporary green calf, marbled endpapers, red speckled edges (rebacked with old spine laid down, corners bumped, without wrappers); modern yellow cloth case. Provenance: H.R. Reynolds -- Rev. C. Wollery-Dod, 17 June 1873 (ownership signatures on front free endpaper).

FIRST TO THIRD EDITION. GOOD, CLEAN COPIES of the first years, united in the same binding from 1872 or earlier.


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