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Last Price Update Dec 2025 : I have been collecting Wisdens for a while now and in 2005 set up this Website to pass on my Wisden experiences, this site was the first ever created on the internet to explain about Wisdens to the masses and it is regularly updated with valuable statistics to help every Wisden collector when needed, to enhance their set. This site includes a popular discussion forum (wisdenclub.com) which has kept me entertained since '05. Over time we were offered Wisdens from members and also people asked if we had any spares to fill gaps in their sets. This led to our online Wisden Catalogue and this evolved into our sister site wisdenauction.com (see 2013 Wisden, pages 50/51), we improved the look and feel of this site in August 2013 and have updated it year on year, Happy Collecting, Chris Ridler, Wisden Collector.
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Mission Statement "Our aim is to put our heart and soul into helping you complete your Wisden Collecting goals, providing free expert advice along the way"...1000+ Wisden Pictures can be seen below of our own Set & Sales
Our Sister Site www.wisdenauction.com has provided us with their sale values from Sept 2008 to End 2024. The image file is very large so have included one without images too. (You may be warned that they aren't secure documents but they are secure, just large & lots of data) No Images & With Images
Our full set is pictured below. For each year, you can study the pictures and see all the statistics/prices/values for that year on the 3 tabs : For Sale (available Wisdens), Recent Values Tab (Auction Prices), Statistics Tab (our valuation tool) - Just click on the text (e.g. XXXX Recent Values) under the pictures
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1876 Wisden - Original Paperback - Front -
1876 Wisden - Original Paperback - Spine -
1876 Wisden - Original Paperback - Rear Cover
| Images | All Items | Price | Bids | Ends |
 | 1876 Rebound Wisden , with Facsimile Covers, like HB Binding | £999.00 | ||
 | 1876 Wisden Rebound Without Covers | £1,250.00 | ||
 | 1876 Original Paperback Wisden. No Front Cover. | £1,490.00 | ||
 | Facsimile Wisden - 1876 - Billings (1st Reprint) | £35.00 | ||
 | 1877 Wisden Rebind without Covers - 14th Edition. | £1,850.00 | ||
 | LILLYWHITE'S CRICKETERS' COMPANION 1876.ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. NEAR FINE | £75.00 | ||
 | Facsimile Wisden - 1876 - Lowe & Brydone (2nd Reprint) | £44.00 | ||
 | 1876 Wisden Rebind with Front Cover | £2,450.00 | ||
 | 1876 Wisden Rebound without Covers & 1 page | £990.00 | ||
 | 1876 Paperback Wisden with Facsimile Parts. | £1,100.00 | ||
 | 1876 WISDEN REBOUND WITHOUT WRAPPERS VERY GOOD PLUS | £1,175.00 | ||
 | 1876 WISDEN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS FINE CONDITION | £2,950.00 | ||
 | 1876 Paperback Wisden, Scarce | £2,400.00 |
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One of the hard first fifteen to find, especially in Original form and with Original Covers.
String was used next to the spine to hold this edition together so they are usually more complete and tightly bound than other early years.
If you have any comments to add regarding the 1876 Wisden, please contact us on wisdens@cridler.com and we will add them
I am currently reading my set and pop notes into the www.wisdenauction.com newsletter, here is a snippet of the write up from 1876 : The back of the front cover has the previous editions precise , then the title page with a thank you by John Wisden on the reverse with 2 amendments in the errata , an adding up error and an age correction, contents follows then the calendar over 4 pages then births and deaths (5 Lillywhites) then the laws (identical to 1875s ‚¬€œ very dull but being an umpire it is a good read J opposition referred to as antagonists) we also have 42d law, I best check the same is in the rest! ), still no mention of a Boundary , a 4 or a 6 but it is referred to a lot in Wisden write ups, so maybe just a local law? First impressions is that there are a lot more words in here! 224 pages in total (plus covers). The calendar is always entertaining, T A Mantle concluded his walk from London to Land‚¬„¢s end in 1875 (Jan 5/6) the precursor to Beefy? Speaking of which a bull sold for 2000 guineas in 1875 (July 1), what would he make of the IPL auction? Plenty of new deaths in 75 and more cricket on ice (worth all these entries?), Wisden is getting lazy as a lot of entries go over 2 lines and 2 days. 10th April , Captain Boyton‚¬„¢s first try. Not sure at what. 28th April the prince of wales installed as the grand master of freemasons. Some cricketing notes too like Alfred Shaw‚¬„¢s great day at Lords (15th June) and Webbe 299 on 26th May. Hospital Sunday was on a Tuesday. 203 runs for the first wicket at Lords 6th July. 1st August ‚¬Å“very hot day 1875‚¬,a fatal storm , explosion and a few deaths later and the calendar has concluded. : Please contact us for the full write up.
My 1876 Wisden, as pictured, is a paperback without the rear cover, the rest of the book is fine, some flaking to the spine but no other complaints apart from the missing cover, purchased at auction for £1680 in circa 2011