No. 36 of fifty-five copies printed.
ALLSTON, Washington.—Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston. Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. New York: Baker and Scribner MDCCCL. 12mo, blue levant morocco, back and sides paneled with quintuple lines, gilt edges, by Motte.
ALMANAC—The Ladies Diary: or Woman's Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1751. Being the Third after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing an Improvement of Arts and Sciences, For the Use and Pleasure of the Fair-Sex. Being the Forty Eighth Almanack publish'd of this Kind. . . . Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1751. Small 8vo, original blue morocco, covered with tooling in the "cottage" pattern, with flap, silver catch, and pockets.
ALMANAC.—The Comic Almanack, for 1835; [and each succeeding year to 1853] an Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work." By Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with a dozen of "righte merrie" cuts, pertaining to the months, sketched and etched by George Cruikshank. [&c] London: imprinted for Charles Tilt . . . [1835-1853]. Post 8vo, nineteen years bound in five volumes, half green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Bedford.
A complete set of the original issue, with covers preserved. The title-pages show no alteration of importance until 1841, when the imprint changes to "Tilt and Bogue," again changing, in 1844, to "David Bogue." In 1848-49 the size is reduced one third, and the abbreviated title has the line, "Edited by Horace Mayhew." In 1850 the Almanac renews its original size, and H. G. Hine is introduced by name as the co-illustrator with Cruikshank. The last year of publication is "Edited by Robert B. Brough."
From the commencement to 1847 Cruikshank contributed twelve plates to each year, but in 1848 the number was reduced to six, in 1849 to five (including a folded frontispiece), and the four concluding years have each a folded frontispiece in colours, as well as six plates. Each year a large number of woodcut illustrations supplement the plates.
The original issue of Thackeray's "Stubbs's Calendar," or the "Fatal Boots" appeared in the volume for 1839, and his "Barber Cox" the year following.
ALMANAC.—The Book-Lover's Almanac for the year 1893 with illustrations by Henriot. Duprat & Co. New York 1893. Small 4to, original covers, uncut edges.
Japan paper copy, two hundred printed, with twelve coloured plates, a frontispiece, and floral borders.
ALMANAC.—The Book-Lover's Almanac for the year 1894, with etchings by Robida, and other illustrations. New York: Duprat & Co. 1894 . . . Second year. Small 4to, original covers, uncut edges.