Tityrus' J.A.H. Catton, The Rise of The Leaguers from 1863 - 1897 A History of the Football League, scarce publication by The Sporting Chronicle 189

Tityrus' J.A.H. Catton, The Rise of The Leaguers from 1863 - 1897 A History of the Football League, scarce publication by The Sporting Chronicle 1897, all pages detached at spine, paper wrappers, first printing, original card wraps, complete with the frontis team photo of Aston Villa, League Champions 1895-1896, woodcut portraits of players and management, detailing early histories of 16 clubs: Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Bury, Derby County, Everton, Liverpool, Nottingham Forest, Preston North End, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Stoke, Sunderland, West Bromwich Albion, and Wolverhampton Wanderers Covers stained and scuffed, marked on spine, wear to spine, lacking staples and remnants of pin holes on all pages where staples were, pages browned and slightly brittle