London Almanac for the year of Christ 1821. Company of Stationers [London]. 1820.

London Almanac for the year of Christ 1821. Company of Stationers [London]. 1820. slipcase, 24 unnumbered leaves ; engraved throughout, printed on one side only on a single sheet, cut into bifolia, pasted back to back with first recto and last verso pasted to original pink free endpapers. 4-page dismembered engraving of a view of the Southwark Bridge.  Duty stamp; including saints days, calendar, table of Kings and Queens, Lord mayors & sheriffs, holidays and current coins. 1.5 x 2.3".  Original maroon leather venetian mosaic binding with stylised hourglass motifs in gilt in the oval red central panels. Unmatching vertical slipcase with stylised star of the garter motif and with 1830 in a contemporary ink hand added. Slipcase  slightly rubbed with minuscule areas of wear. First produced in 1749 -that first edition survivng in a unique copy at the British Library - the London Almanac continued annually until 1889. A similar edition is in the Queen Mary's Dolls' House in Windsor Castle. Not in Spielmann. Welsh 4622 OCLC, 964581356. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide.  94 firsts2024