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LILLYWHITE, Frederick (editor). The Young Cricketer’s Guide [and] The Guide to Cricketers . London: F. Lillywhite, Lord’s Cricket Ground, Marylebone, W. and T. Piper [and others]; sold by Rudolf Ackermann and printed by W. H. Crockford, [1849-1866]. 25 volumes, 8°. Wood-engraved plate of Frederick William Lillywhite in editions 8-10 and 21. Uniform blue half morocco, spines numbered, lettered and dated in gilt, many original wrappers or covers bound in. Provenance : Rev. R.S. Holmes (originally formed from his celebrated set, later to come into the ownership of:) -- G. Neville Weston -- John Arlott -- Anthony E. Winder, in his sale by Phillips, London, A Collection of Cricketana, 21 November 1985, lot 646, where purchased by Roger Hancock.
LILLYWHITE, Frederick (editor). The Young Cricketer’s Guide [and] The Guide to Cricketers . London: F. Lillywhite, Lord’s Cricket Ground, Marylebone, W. and T. Piper [and others]; sold by Rudolf Ackermann and printed by W. H. Crockford, [1849-1866]. 25 volumes, 8°. Wood-engraved plate of Frederick William Lillywhite in editions 8-10 and 21. Uniform blue half morocco, spines numbered, lettered and dated in gilt, many original wrappers or covers bound in. Provenance : Rev. R.S. Holmes (originally formed from his celebrated set, later to come into the ownership of:) -- G. Neville Weston -- John Arlott -- Anthony E. Winder, in his sale by Phillips, London, A Collection of Cricketana, 21 November 1985, lot 646, where purchased by Roger Hancock. THE SALE OF THE MUCH CHERISHED HANCOCK SET REPRESENTS A VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A COMPLETE RUN OF THE FAMOUS LILLYWHITE GUIDES. While the first, second and sixth editions are the hardest to acquire, Winter 1863 and its variant are also particularly scarce. The Rev. R.S. Holmes’s set was originally bound in seven volumes. After being purchased in 1985, it was split up and made subject to gradual improvement when better copies, with the much sought after covers, appeared on the market. Since the publishing history of Lillywhite’s Guide is so complex, the question of how to rebind the set must have taken careful thought. The gilt lettering on the spines displays both the edition and volume number, and forms a clear bibliographical statement about the contents. In fact the volume numbering follows the edition numbering in David Smith’s Guide to the Lillywhite Guides (Corsham, 1991) almost to the end. The two numberings only fall out of step when Hancock enumerates Smith edition 23 as volume 22A and Smith edition 24 as volume 23. The only other 'bis' volume contains a copy of the 18th edition with 'Eighteenth' crossed through (but not erased) by the publishers and 'Seventeenth' printed above -- this is designated 17th edition, Winter 1863, on the spine and called volume 18B. Smith, seeing little significance in the alteration, does not give such copies a separate issue number. In this case, therefore, Hancock's bis number avoids an earlier break with Smith's numbering sequence. Although the cricket journalist Frederick Lillywhite ‘junior’ was editor of all the volumes, the first three editions were largely written by his father, William Frederick Lillywhite (1792-1854), the slow medium round-arm bowler for Sussex . A REMARKABLY TALL AND IMPRESSIVE SET.