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Bentley, H. A correct account of all the cricket matches played by the
Mary-le-bone Club and all other principal matches 1786–1822
inclusive. 1823. With suppls for 1823, 1824–5.
Mitford, Mary Russell. A country cricket-match. In her Our village
vol 1, 1824.
Maunder, S. The game of life: or death among the cricketers. In
Death’s doings: verse and prose [by] various writers, 1826. Ed and
illustr R. Dagley.
Nyren, John. The young cricketer’s tutor; to which is added the
cricketers of my time or recollections of the most famous old
players. Ed C. Cowden Clarke 1833. Subsequent edns until 1858
(11th) as Nyren’s cricketer’s guide; ed C. Whibley 1893 (under original
title); ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper 1902; ed E. V. Lucas 1907 (as The
Hambledon men); ed J. Arlott in his From Hambledon to Lords,
1948; ed N. Cardus 1948 (under original title). Original edn
reviewed by John Mitford, GM July, Sep 1833.
Pycroft, Rev J. The principles of scientific batting. Oxford 1833.
Under pseudonym ‘A gentleman’.
The cricket field: or the history and science of cricket. 1851, 1873 (6th
edn), 1887 (9th edn); ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper 1922; ed J. Arlott in
his From Hambledon to Lords, 1948. See also L. E. S. Gutteridge,
Bibliography of Pycroft’s Cricket field in Cricket Soc News Letter
35 1954.
The cricket tutor. 1862.
Cricketana. 1865. Cricket articles rptd from London Soc Aug–Nov
1862, Jan, Mar, June 1863.
Cricket reminiscences of the old players and observations on the
young ones. 1868.
Oxford memories. 2 vols 1886 (chs 21–5); ed J. Arlott in his Middle
ages of cricket, 1949.
[Castelden, G.] Woburn Park: a fragment in rural rhyme. 1839, 1840.
Pt 2 describes a match in some detail.
Lillywhite, F. W. Lillywhite’s illustrated hand-book of cricket. 1844.
‘Felix, N.’ (N. Wanostrocht). Felix on the bat. 1845, 1850, 1855, 1962
(with memoir by G. Brodribb).
How to play Clarke. 1852; ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper 1922.
A cricket song. Ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper, Nottingham 1923. See also J.
Arlott, Felix and some aspects of early cricket, in his Concerning
cricket, 1949.
Denison, W. Cricket: sketches of the players. 1846; ed J. Arlott in his
Middle ages of cricket, 1949.
Lillywhite, F. (ed). The guide to cricketers. Annual 1849–66. In 1867
merged with John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ companion. 2 issues in
1849, 1860–1, 1861–2, 1862–3, 3 issues 1865–6. First 3 issues
contain treatise by William Lillywhite; 2 issues of 1849 as The
young cricketer’s guide.
Bolland, W. Cricket notes. 1851.
Gale, F. The public school matches and those we meet there. 1853
(under pseudonym ‘Wykehamist’), 1896 (as Public school cricket
matches forty years ago).
Echoes from the old cricket fields: sketches of cricket and cricketers
from the earliest history of the game. 1871, 1896.
The life of the Hon Robert Grimston. 1885.
The game of cricket. 1887.
‘Chambers, C.’ (T. Smith). The cricket match: a poem in two cantos.
1859.
Lillywhite, F. The English cricketers’ trip to Canada and the United
States. 1860.
‘Old cricketer’ (C. Box?). The cricket-bat and how to use it. 1861.
Prowse, W. J. In memoriam [of the Kent cricketer Alfred Mynn].
Bell’s Life in London 10 Nov 1861. Verse.
Haygarth, A. Frederick Lillywhite’s cricket scores and biographies
from 1746 [to 1878]. 15 vols 1862–1925. Vols 3–4 as Lillywhite’s
cricket scores etc, vols 5–6 and 14 as Arthur Haygarth’s Cricket
scores etc, vols 7–13 as Marylebone Club cricket scores etc, vol 15
ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper as MCC cricket scores etc but consisting
only of biographies. Index to all first-class matches in scores and
biographies vols 1–14 by J. B. Payne, Harrogate 1903.
Grace, E. M. The trip to Australia: scraps from the diary of one of the
twelve. 1864. See also F. S. Ashley-Cooper, E. M. G. cricketer, 1916.
Payne, J. B. Scores and analyses [of matches not in Wisden] 1864–81.
Harrogate [1904].
The Canterbury cricket week. Canterbury 1865.
John Lillywhite’s cricketers’ companion. 1865–85. In 1886 merged
with James Lillywhite’s cricketers’ annual.
Fitzgerald, R. A. Jerks in from short-leg. 1866. Under pseudonym
‘Quid’.
Wickets in the west: or the twelve in America. 1873.
Selkirk, G. H. Guide to the cricket ground. 1867. Practical treatise
with ch on the history of the game.
Box, C. The theory and practice of cricket. 1868.
The English game of cricket. 1877. With anthology of cricket verse.
Gale, F. Echoes from the old cricket fields: sketches of cricket and
cricketers from the earliest history of the game. 1871, 1896.
The game of cricket. 1887.
‘Thomsonby’ (H. P. Thomas). Cricketers in council. 1871. Practical
treatise which includes some verse.
James Lillywhite’s cricketers’ annual. 1871–1900.
Compton, H. A colonial cricket match. In his Semi-tropical trifles,
1875.
‘An old cricketer’. A cricketer’s notebook. 1881. Verse and prose.
Trollope, Anthony. The cricket-match. In his Fixed period, 2 vols
Edinburgh 1882.
Geering, T. Cricket on our common fifty years ago. In his Our parish:
a medley, Hailsham 1884, London 1925 (with memoir by A.
Beckett as Our Sussex parish).
Sapte, W. Cricketers guyed for 1886. [1885]. Humorous articles.
Shaw, A. and A. Shrewsbury. Cricket: Shaw and Shrewsbury’s team
in Australia. Nottingham 1885.
Bowen, E. E. Willow the King [and other verses on cricket]. In his
Harrow songs, 1886.
Glover, W. Reminiscences of half a century. 1889. Includes chs on
cricket.
Hutchinson, H. G. Cricketing saws and stories. 1889.
Peter Steele the cricketer. [1895]. A novel.
[Gale, N. R.] Cricket songs. Rugby 1890.
Cricket songs. 1894.
More cricket songs. 1905.
Dale, B. Some statistics of cricket: or the influence of the weather on
the wicket. [1891.]
Grace, W. G. Cricket. Bristol 1891.
Cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections. 1899.
W. G.’s little book. [1909.] Traces changes and developments in the
game.
See also W. M. Brownlee, W. G. G.: a biography, 1887; The memorial
biography of W. G. G., ed M. B. Hawke, 1919; B. R. M. Darwin, W. G.
G., 1934; C. Box, W. G. G., 1934; C. Box, W. G. G., 1952; A. A. Thomson,
The great cricketer, 1957.
Nelson, A. Comic cricket. [1891.] Humorous articles.
Lucas, E. V. Songs of the bat. 1892.
Willow and leather: a book of praise. Bristol [1898]. Anthology.
Standing, P. C. Gentlemen v Players: with introduction and history
of the contest since its origin in 1806. 1892.
Cricket of to-day and yesterday. 2 vols 1902.
The Hon F. S. Jackson [a biography]. 1906.
Anglo-Australian cricket 1862–1926. 1926.
Daft, R. Kings of cricket: reminiscences and anecdotes. Bristol
[1893].
A cricketer’s yarns. Ed F. S. Ashley-Cooper 1926.
Christian, E. B. V. At the sign of the wicket: essays on the glorious
game. Bristol [1894]. Includes chs on cricket literature.
(ed). The light side of cricket: stories, sketches and verses. 1898.
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