[1] It is generally referred to as "Red Lillywhite" because of the colour of the cover.
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.
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