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LILLYWHITE, James (publisher). Cricketers’ Annual for 1872 [– 1900 ], edited by Charles W. Alcock. London: James Lillywhite, [1872- 1900]. 32 volumes (including 1st and 2nd editions of both 1885 and 1886, and duplicate of 1894). 8°. Portraits and field diagrams. (Some leaves detached; 1872 without errata slip; 1875 without final 2pp. of advertisements; 1882 with loss of text on pp. 150-151 due to printing error; 1894 misbound with pp. 37-68 lacking but substituted by duplicate pp.163-192; 1896 with stain on p.3.) Original red cloth (some rubbing and soiling, frequent splitting of inner hinges, 1879 heavily soiled, small bookplate on front advertisement). Provenance : P.F.Warner (ownership inscription on 1872, 1874, 1875 (twice), 1876, 1878 (twice), and 1883) – F.G. Spybey (1884) -- L. Cowlishaw (1893) -- G. Leonard Garnsey (New South Wales 1904/5 to 1906/7) (1893-94 and 1896; 1894 also with stamp of the Sydney bookseller T.L. Smith .
LILLYWHITE, James (publisher). Cricketers’ Annual for 1872 [– 1900 ], edited by Charles W. Alcock. London: James Lillywhite, [1872- 1900]. 32 volumes (including 1st and 2nd editions of both 1885 and 1886, and duplicate of 1894). 8°. Portraits and field diagrams. (Some leaves detached; 1872 without errata slip; 1875 without final 2pp. of advertisements; 1882 with loss of text on pp. 150-151 due to printing error; 1894 misbound with pp. 37-68 lacking but substituted by duplicate pp.163-192; 1896 with stain on p.3.) Original red cloth (some rubbing and soiling, frequent splitting of inner hinges, 1879 heavily soiled, small bookplate on front advertisement). Provenance : P.F.Warner (ownership inscription on 1872, 1874, 1875 (twice), 1876, 1878 (twice), and 1883) – F.G. Spybey (1884) -- L. Cowlishaw (1893) -- G. Leonard Garnsey (New South Wales 1904/5 to 1906/7) (1893-94 and 1896; 1894 also with stamp of the Sydney bookseller T.L. Smith . A COMPLETE RUN. The last and longest running of the Lillywhites which incorporates John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Companion from 1885 onwards. 1872 is the third issue of the first edition, and 1873 with errata slip the second issue of the second edition. Unlike its predecessors, the annual contains ‘a veritable treasure trove of illustrations’ (West, Guide to James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual , 1993, p. 29), with two wood-engraved portraits in both 1874 and 1875, and a mounted photographic frontispiece from 1876 to 1900. Allen 57; Padwick 1087. Together with a presentation copy of West's Guide (New Moreton Press, Oxon, 1993), signed by the author and inscribed 'For Roger T. Hancock in gratitude for his assistance'.