The sale at Knights Sporting Auctions in Leicester on November 2-3 includes a number of items previously sold by Christie’s as duplicates from the library of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 2010.
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.