Indexes

Arthur Haygarth spent a lifetime collecting detailed information about cricket’s history and much of this was published, firstly by Frederick Lillywhite and then M.C.C., with more than 10,000 pages in 14 volumes between 1862 and 1895. The books, which cover the period 1744 to 1878, 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 If you are interested in the period and need to find information, mostly unpublished elsewhere, this series of booklets should prove invaluable.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 on:

Essential to historians - CMS; Handy tool - David Frith, WCM; Complements S&B - The Cricketer International; a godsend to those owners of S&B....by one of the keenest of cricket bibliophiles - Robert Brooke, ACS; a useful reference even when I do not have the books; invaluable guide and aide memoir; My opinion is best understood when you find my cheque for the second volume; a time saver; it was wanting someone to carry out this mammoth task; a marvellous idea; Valuable; Superb booklets (extracts from letters received)

Vol 15 contains facsimile of AL Ford’s Curiosities of Cricket

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