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FREDERICK LILLYWHITE
Prospectus: Lillywhite's Large Cricket Work
London: F. Lillywhite, 1856. 4to., 2 leaves, unbound as issued. Giving a list of the proposed contents of Cricket Scores and Biographies [though not using this title] and appealing for more information, with a subscription form on the second leaf. The promised number of "scores of grand matches preserved since 1746" has a manuscript correction from "three thousand five hundred" to "four thousand one hundred". [and:]
To Cricketers: Lillywhite's Large Work on Cricket
London: F. Lillywhite, April 1859. 16mo., 2 leaves, unbound as issued. Predicts that "nearly 5000 matches of note" will be included together with biographical notices; it is explained that "a circular has been forwarded to every living cricketer of note (both gentlemen and professionals)" in order to glean more information, and a request is made for "a copy of the tombstones" of a long list of cricketers beginning with Richard Nyren; together in red solander box. cf. Padwick 805. (2)
Prospectus: Lillywhite's Large Cricket Work
London: F. Lillywhite, 1856. 4to., 2 leaves, unbound as issued. Giving a list of the proposed contents of Cricket Scores and Biographies [though not using this title] and appealing for more information, with a subscription form on the second leaf. The promised number of "scores of grand matches preserved since 1746" has a manuscript correction from "three thousand five hundred" to "four thousand one hundred". [and:]
To Cricketers: Lillywhite's Large Work on Cricket
London: F. Lillywhite, April 1859. 16mo., 2 leaves, unbound as issued. Predicts that "nearly 5000 matches of note" will be included together with biographical notices; it is explained that "a circular has been forwarded to every living cricketer of note (both gentlemen and professionals)" in order to glean more information, and a request is made for "a copy of the tombstones" of a long list of cricketers beginning with Richard Nyren; together in red solander box. cf. Padwick 805. (2)
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