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New: From Commons to Lord's
£120Volume I, covering the period 1700–1750, is due to be published on 30 June 2009, costing £120.
A record of the cricket matches and other references to the game between 1700 and 1799, comparing the various known sources, together with notes on art and literature of the time, this is perhaps the most important historical work to be published in recent years. The compiler, Ian Maun, has investigated and recorded not only historical volumes such as those of Britcher, Bentley, Waghorn, Buckley, and F.S. Ashley-Cooper, but also a wide range of unpublished manuscripts from both printed and electronic sources. This has provided a host of new references. Some 200 hitherto unseen items appear in the first volume alone, including quotations from memoirs and novels, as well as the exact wording of newspaper notices, previously only available in summary. The author has also had access to the M.C.C. archives and those of the Honourable Artillery Company.
Every historian will need a copy of this work as it will become the first point of reference for any investigation into cricket during this period.
This 250 page hardback book with illustrations, bound in buckram, features marbled endpapers with gold titles and silk ribbon marker. It will make a handsome addition to any cricket library.
Edited by Roger Packham and Martin Wilson and published by Roger Heavens as part of the M.C.C. Cricket Library and endorsed by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, this book, as the Duke of Richmond and Gordon observes, “fills a serious gap in the cricket history bookshelves… and will be greatly enjoyed by many cricket lovers”.
