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Death of Frederick Lillywhite — End of an Era for Cricket Publishing, 1866

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1866-09-15

Frederick William Lillywhite, the cricket publisher who had founded the The Guide to Cricketers in 1849 and the encyclopaedic Scores and Biographies in 1862, died at Brighton on 15 September 1866 aged just 37. His death scattered the Lillywhite publishing operation among rival relatives, removed the only direct competitor to John Wisden's three-year-old Almanack, and turned Wisden from one cricket annual among many into the inheritor of the field.

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Lillywhite's Cricketers' Almanack — Annual Begins, 1849

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1849-04-01

Frederick Lillywhite, son of the Nonpareil, brought out the first edition of his Guide to Cricketers in the spring of 1849. The annual ran for eighteen consecutive editions until 1866, contained fixture lists, club addresses, players' birthdates and laws, and was the model that John Wisden's 1864 almanack was designed to compete with.

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