 An edition of "Red Lillywhite" | |
| Editor | Charles W. Alcock |
|---|---|
| Categories | Cricket |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Format | |
| Publisher | James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co. |
| Founder | James Lillywhite |
| Founded | 1872 |
| First issue | 1872 (1872) |
| Final issue | 1900 (1900) |
| Company | James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual was acricket annual edited byCharles W. Alcock, the secretary ofSurrey 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.
From the 1876 edition it included a frontispiece, which was an actual photograph affixed into the annual.
The 1883 edition includes a tribute toJames Lillywhite senior, who was "the brain which devised the conception of the Annual" and who had died in 1882.
James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual incorporatedJohn Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion from 1886 on, after the latter ceased separate publication in 1885.[3]
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