The Comic Almanack: An Ephemera in Jest and Earnest Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips and Oddities

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Published by John Camden Hotten, 1843

About this Item

(First Series, 1835-1843) Slightly smaller, thick book, dark green shiny cloth with several embossed borders, bright gilt title and illustration of bird with human face playing instrument with a scythe on front, gilt lettering and gilt illustration of man with large hat on spine bright, slight wear to top tips, badly worn at bottom tips, very small ink spot at top front edge next to tip, very slight wear at long spine left edge, very tiny nicks and slight wear to spine bottom edge, shiny dark gray inside covers and adjacent end papers, ink note and date (1849) on second front end paper, frontispiece illustration of "The Cold Water Cure," 387 lightly browned pages, slight wear to bottom of inner hinge between pp. 208-209, slight wear spot to long pages' edge at bottom from insect. Worn with inside of spine visible between illustration and p. 177. Near Good.

Seller Inventory # 36208

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Comic Almanack: An Ephemera in Jest and Earnest Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips and Oddities
• Publisher: John Camden Hotten
• Publication Date: 1843
• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Cruikshank, George
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology
  • Humor