London Almanac for the year of Christ 1847. Company of Stationers [London]. 1846. 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. With a engraving of Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead; no duty stamp; including saints days, calendar, table of Kings and Queens, Lord mayors & sheriffs, holidays and current coins. 6 x 3.5". Original emerald leather venetian mosaic binding with stylised diamond and flower motifs in gilt in the central panels. Matching vertical slipcase. Slipcase very slightly rubbed. 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. Bondy, 164. Spielmann, 340. Welsh, 4656 OCLC, 1141259729. WorldCat locates one copy worldwide (Virginia University Library). 97 firsts2024