New Haygarth titles
Arthur Haygarth's Scores and Biographies: Volume 17
Price: £65This volume continues Rowland Bowen’s intention of completing Haygarth’s “Museum”, as he called it, and takes the series to the end of 1880. There are details of almost 575 matches, the majority of which have never been published until now together with over 80 biographical entries. There are also errata and addenda to previous volumes which include a newly discovered game of importance from 1874, involving Pooley’s New All England XI which, had Haygarth been aware of it, would certainly have been included. Matches abound from the Antipodes, Africa and the Americas. There are also some surprises with references from the Asian continent. As you might expect, all the M.C.C. scores are within the book, together with most of the warm-up games played by the counties together with every Australian encounter during that year including all supplementary matches. There are also details of the eventually abortive Canadian tour when the captain was arrested by the British military for desertion in an earlier life. His escape and recapture are all dealt with! Matches involving the Band of Brothers, the Cambridge and Oxford Colleges, the great schools, the forces teams, and eccentric teams such as I Zingari, Free Foresters, Orleans, Will o’ Wisps and Incogniti abound. The general meetings of the counties are covered together with the laws of cricket for that year. Teams that failed to trouble the scorers together with others that batted so long the opposition never got a bat are all there in yet another fascinating trawl through the sport in this Victorian year. The layout of the new volume will match the previous books to preserve the Victorian feel, which I feel is important.
Customers who would prefer their copy ‘in the sheets’ so that they can bind them to their own custom design can also be supplied if requested. If you require a specific number of your copy of the limited edition please state. As usual an index will be available.
The cost of this volume will be £65 plus £5 postage and packing and the index if required an additional £8. Its layout will be as in all previous volumes.
Arthur Haygarth's Scores and Biographies: Volume 16
Price: £60The 16th Volume of Scores and Biographies covers 1879 and has all been taken from Haygarth's original manuscript, kindly loaned to me by the M.C.C.
It contains 472 scores, most not previously published, 142 biographies and obituaries together with 22 pages of errata and addenda from Haygarth's own notes, and a continuation of his Curiosities of Cricket.
This 535 page book is in identical format to the previous volumes and is supplied with a dust wrapper. This was probably the most important historical publication of the last few years and I am sure that Haygarth himself would appreciate the new work.
Indexes
The books, which cover the period 1744 to 1879, have never been fully indexed until now. If you are interested in the period and need to find information, mostly unpublished elsewhere, this series of booklets should prove invaluable. Much of the work is devoted to club and town cricket. For example, 1861 details 205 matches of which only 37 are printed elsewhere and, of the 50 biographies that year, 44 are unique. Designed to locate all entries quickly via cross-referencing, the index has 100,000 plus entries.
Arthur Haygarth: His record innings-by-innings
Price: £4Published by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians in 2003.
Part of the Famous Cricketers Series (No. 75) this also contains a listing of the averages of Haygarth’s contemporaries of the period of his career with a bibliography of his writings. 30pp. with 2 illustrations.
Essays on Arthur Haygarth
Price: £5Originally published in 2000 on the occasion of a commemorative plaque being unveiled by David Frith on the house where Haygarth was born in Hastings such has been recent demand it is now available again. This contains a number of biographical essays by F.S. Ashley-Cooper, W.A. Bettesworth, J.A.H. Catton, G.D. Martineau and Roger Heavens together with short biographies of the writers by Roger Packham.
Haygarth Remembered
Price: £3A second collection of essays this time by Rowland Bowen, A.J. Gaston, E.V.Lucas and two others who never gave their names.
Published for the unveiling of the plaque at 88 Warwick Way, Westminster where Arthur Haygarth died on 1st May 1903 by Christopher Martin-Jenkins on 13 November 2003.
Limited to 208 copies – A must for anyone interested in Haygarth
