James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual

James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual was a cricket annual edited by Charles W. Alcock, the secretary of Surrey County Cricket Club, between 1872^[1] and 1900.^[1] It is generally referred to as "Red Lillywhite" because of the colour of the cover. It was published by James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co.,^[2] and sold for 1s.

An edition of "Red Lillywhite"

From the 1876 edition it included a frontispiece, which was an actual photograph affixed into the annual.

The 1883 edition includes a tribute to James Lillywhite senior, who was "the brain which devised the conception of the Annual" and who had died in 1882.

James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual incorporated John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion from 1886 on, after the latter ceased separate publication in 1885.^[3]

See also

• Football Annual (a similar publication for football, also edited by Alcock)

References

1. "Lillywhite's Cricket Annuals". Sports Pages. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
2. "James Lillywhite's cricketers' annual. – Version details – Trove". Retrieved 8 May 2015.
3. Shattock, Joanne (1999). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 2874. ISBN 9780521391009. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

External links

• www.lillywhites.org – Lilly Fan Page