MCC Scrapbook

Reference

SCR432

Date:

1800 - 1906

Level of description

item

Extent

1 volume

Scope and Content

Scrapbook of items relating to MCC, Lord's and cricket. Includes a reproduction of the laws of cricket published by John Wallis, articles on the appointment of F E Lacey as MCC Secretary and retirement of H Perkins as MCC Secretary, articles and drawings relating to A E Stoddart's English tour of Australia in 1897-1898, cricket-themed advertisements produced by Bennetfink and Co., Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes, Holloway's Ointment and Ogden's Guinea-Gold Cigarettes, cartoons of cricket played in Constantinople, cartoon by Punch entitled 'The Parliamentary Cricket Team on Tour!', articles on the English cricket tour of Australia in 1863-1864, Vanity Fair portrait of K S Ranjitsinhji, portrait photograph of W G Grace originally published in 'Black and White', report on the Cheltenham vs. Haileybury match at Lord's in 1897, article on the history of I Zingari published in St. James's Gazette in 1897, photograph of the Simla Cricket Club and Patiala Eleven (which included K S Rantjitsinhji) entitled 'Ranjitsinhji in India', photograph of J H Dark, E C Leigh, W Fiennes, the Earl of Galloway and L C V Bathurst, newspaper articles on Ranjitsinhji's career, article on a dinner held in Grace's honour at the Sports Club, article honouring Grace on his 50th birthday, article on the death of I D Walker, cricket sketches by Mr Rip, cartoon drawing of the Oxford and Cambridge match at Lord's [in 1898], cartoon of a grand parliamentary cricket match, photographs of W G Grace, E M Grace and Lord Sheffield's Australian team of 1891-1892 originally published in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in July 1898 to commemorate W G Grace's 50th birthday, cartoons of 'The Lady Cricketers', article on Yorkshire's County Championship victory in 1898, photograph of the I Zingari team with played against South Wales in July 1864 (the first match in which W G Grace played at Lord's), article on the appearance of a snipe at Lord's in 1899, drawing of a cricket match played in Khartoum in Sudan, frontispiece, lyrics and music to the song 'Willow the King' edited by John Farmer, photograph of spectators having lunch at Lord's in the A enclosure (possibly during the Eton vs. Harrow match in 1898), team photographs of the England and Australian teams in 1899, cartoon drawing of extensions to Lord's in 1899 (the Mound Stand), cartoons of the England vs. Australia Test matches in 1899, advertisement for Cadbury's Cocoa featuring a batsman at the wicket drinking a cup of cocoa, reproduction of lithographs by J C Anderson of William and James Lillywhite, newspaper photograph of Tom Hearne, photograph of cricketers in the Pavilion at High Legh, newspaper articles on cricket in Harrow in the 18th century, advertisement for Seigel's Syrup featuring a cartoon of W G Grace, front cover from 'The Boy's Own Paper' featuring a cartoon of W G Grace, article on J Loraine Baldwin entitled 'Celebrities at Home', report of a grand cricket match in Ireland in August 1792, Spy drawing of 'the Croucher', reproduction of a watercolour drawing of a young boy holding a cricket bat entitled 'The Hope of His Side', newspaper photograph of the Board of Control for Test Matches at Home meeting at Lord's in 1902, article on Garnerin's balloon ascent from Lord's in 1802, copies of 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News' article on cricket in the 19th century by C W Alcock, photograph of cricket at Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 1902, report on the Test match between Australia and England in Sydney in December 1901, articles on F S Jackson's wedding, Spy cartoon of 'A Flannelled Fighter', copy of article by W G Grace entitled 'Widening the Wicket and the Alteration of Rules', article analysing Ranjitsinhji's centuries, article and photographs relating to a cricket match between the Cricket-golfers and Golf-cricketers at Lord's, list of donations received for the Cricketers' National War Fund, rules of the Barbados Cricket Club, newspaper photographs of the Middlesex team in 1903 and the MCC team which toured Australia in 1903-1904, reproduction of cartoon of W G Grace by A Chevallier Tayler in 1905, photographs of the MCC tour to South Africa in 1905-1906, obituary of Colonel Francis Wister.

Associations

Lawrence Charles Villebois Bathurst
Sir Francis Eden Lacey
Henry Perkins
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji
William Gilbert Grace
Simla Cricket Club
James Henry Dark
Sir Edward Chandos Leigh
Isaac Donnithorne Walker
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
I Zingari
Cadbury's
Barbados Cricket Club
John Loraine Baldwin
Board of Control for Test Matches in England
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Andre-Jacques Garnerin
Vanity Fair
Albert Chevallier Tayler
John Corbet Anderson
James Lillywhite
William Lillywhite

Subject

A E Stoddart's XI in Australia 1897-1898, laws of cricket, advertising, cricket in Constantinople, George Parr's XI in Australia and New Zealand 1863-1864, Australia in England 1899, MCC in South Africa 1905-1906, MCC in Australia 1903-1904, A C MacLaren's XI in Australia 1901-1902

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 volume

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