SCARCE: Alcock (Charles W.) Football: Our Winter Game, blue pictorial cloth, Field, London, 1874 One of the first truly comprehensive accounts of the

SCARCE: Alcock (Charles W.) Football: Our Winter Game, blue pictorial cloth, Field, London, 1874 One of the first truly comprehensive accounts of the game during its growth following the formation of the Football Association in 1863 and for whom the author was a hugely influential figure. This title is the only the fourth book listed in Peter Seddon's Football Compendium, and the auctioneer cannot recall the last time that a copy of this early work on football appeared in the salerooms.