Live auction - Lot 895
[Almanac]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1774.
London, for the Company of Stationers, [1773]
€ 300 / 350
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Lot description
64mo, 5,7 x 3,2 cm : [13] ff.
Richly gilt-tooled red morocco, gilt orn. flat spine, Brokatpapier endpapers, a.e.g., housed in a similarly decorated red morocco cigar case (min. repairs). Excellent copy.
Beautiful miniature almanac, engraved throughout. Ill. with a picture of the New Session House. The London Almanack appeared continuously for over 200 years since 1690. Each leaf is printed on one side only. In this copy the leaves were pasted together to form 13 ff. Revenue stamp on 1st f. Ref. Bondy p. 40. - Cp. Welsh p. 139 sq., Spielmann p. 107 sq. - COPAC.