Lot 788 , Leslie Ward - Spy Portraits of cricketers largest 15 x 10in., See website for list

Leslie Ward - Spy
33 Vanity Fair colour lithographs
Portraits of cricketers
largest 15 x 10in., See website for list
Estimate £500-800

All of these prints are mounted and framed, mostly in matching mock hardwood parcel silvered frames, with mounts that reveal the title, in most cases the Men of the Day facsimile has been stuck to the back, all have been framed with conservation glass, one or two have slightly different framing.

Dylan in good condition with the Vanity Fair supplement no.2339 inscription at the top and what looks like the original typed description applied to the back of the framing, Grace in good condition mounted slightly tightly against the Vanity Fair inscription at the top though it might have slipped a little in the frame, an acid mark showing down the left hand side, original paper description pasted verso.
Hobbs slightly faded impression with some dirt and discolouring to the paper and the background printing showing through, facsimile reprint verso of the title.
Yorkshire Cricket Martin Blaydon Hawke
Father Repton, Oxford and Somerset
The Demon Bowler
In His Father's Steps, Lord Dalmeny
Tom - Thomas Hayward
WW - Walter William Read
An Artful Bowler - Mr Bosanquet
Sammy - Samuel Moses James Woods
Australian Cricket - George John Bonnor
Oxford Cricket
Kent - Lord Harris
Plum
Yorkshire Cricket - Lord Hawke
The Champion County - Edward Wentworth Dillon
Ranji
Cricketing Christianity - Reverend Frank Gillingham
Hampshire - Captain Edward Wynyard
A Flannelled Fighter
Charlie
English Cricket - Alfred Lyttelton
Reggie- Reginald Herbert Spooner
Bobby - Robert Abel
A Big Hitter - Andrew Stoddart
Monkey - Albert Hornby
46 Centuries in 11 Years - J T Tyldesley
The Croucher
Test Cricket - J.B. Hobbs
Cricket - William Gilbert Grace
The Lobster - Digby Jephson
A Century Maker
Yorkshire
plus Oxford Athletics


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Sold for £900