[New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera. 1880-1959]

Date: 1886

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera. 1880-1959]

Reference: Eph-B-CRICKET-1886-01

Description: Front cover shows the title in an arrangement of different type faces, around a small engraving showing a cricket game in progress. Inside opening shows on the left a humorous depiction of cricket terms such as LBW, not out, caught out, stumped, bowled out. In all cases the cricket ball is the hatching egg of a phoenix, and a phoenix also rises from a central cauldron of fire labeled "1885 defeat". Below is a small verse which indicates that Phoenix Cricket Club may have played on the Basin Reserve, and may have considered Island Bay as a future playing field. The programme lists items by Mr Hawthorne, Mr Widdop, Mr Riley, Mr Motley, Messrs W & C Godden, Mr Barton, Mr Ronaldson, Mr Pitt, Mr Peat, Mt Montgomery, Mr McIntyre, Mr Humphries, Mr Wilson-Duret, Mr Nicholls, Mr Whitfield, Mr F Allen. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on folded pamphlet, 250 x 201 mm.(folded)

Date: 1887

From: [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera. 1880-1959]

By: Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm); McKean, H, active 1886

Reference: Eph-B-CRICKET-1887-01

Description: Front cover shows the title in an arrangement of different type faces,below the banner logo of the cricket club against a background of river landscape with cabbage tree. The whole is inside a decorative border. The chairman and committee of the club are listed as: Mr Levin (Chairman), Mr Duncan (vice-chairman), concert committee A Motley, E Wilson-Duret, S Waters, E Widdop, J Riley, H McKean, J Varnham, A R Nicholls (Hon Sec). Inside opening shows the programme, inside a wide border of humorous sketches (signed by H McK - likely to be the H McKean listed on the cover), depicting cricket terms: drawing the stumps (a dentist), run out (empty wine barrel, prominent player (fat), Lanky Shier vs Knots (ie Lancashire vs Nottinghamshire), stumped (out of money), sent back with a shooter, out with a beautiful bailer, a forward style, etc. The programme lists items by Mr W Hardwicke, Mr Levin, Mr E Widdop, Mr Riley, Mr W Godden, Mr Barton, Mr A R Nicholls, Mr P McIntyre, Mr W D Lyon, Mr Haybittle, Mr T Sayers, Mr Gully. Bock & Cousins, Printers, Brandon Street. Inscriptions: bottom right - (Inside spread): J McK Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on folded pamphlet, 231 x 173 mm.(folded)