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A rare bound volume of Cricket and Football Times, From Vol. II No.28 to No.48, 7 November 1878 to 27 March 1879, being winter issues there is little

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£300 - £400

A rare bound volume of Cricket and Football Times, From Vol. II No.28 to No.48, 7 November 1878 to 27 March 1879, being winter issues there is little cricket content within this volume until January with reports from the England cricket tour to Australia and New Zealand, for football the first issue reports on an experimental evening of floodlit football at The Oval in November 1878 between Clapham Rovers & Wanderers, also a full page supplement print of the England football captain A W Cursham of Notts County, the volume stops short of the date of the F.A. Cup Final but there is coverage up until the semi-final Old Etonians v Nottingham Forest, the term football also encompassing rugby union at this time