A duplicate copy of the laws of the game of cricket from 1786 by estimated at £5000-7000 at Knights Sporting Auctions.
They include this very rare copy of the laws of the game titled New Articles of the Game of Cricket, as settled and revised at the Star and Garter, Pall-Mall, February, 1786 by a Committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, &c, to which is added the Old Laws, as settled by the several Cricket Clubs.
Published in London in 1786, this copy includes an early annotation to the title page reading: ‘At the time Lord’s Ground was situate upon the site of Dorset Square New Road’.
Estimate £5000-7000.
