Green cloth binding with gilt title on the front board and the spine.

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This copy was re-published by London, Chatto and Windus, circa 1860. The originals were published annually between 1835 and 1853. As people rediscover an interest in almanacks there is an increasing demand for this book type.

Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack was the most important of a number of comic almanacks of the late Regency period which parodied and subverted the popular almanack genre to poke fun at their educational aspirations and at society at large. Contributing authors included Thackeray, the Brothers Mayhew, Robert Brough, and Gilbert A’Beckett, but the success of the Comic Almanack rested principally on Cruikshank’s illustrations and editorial talents.

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers’ planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Celestial figures and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the rising and setting times of the Sun and Moon, dates of eclipses, hours of high and low tides, and religious festivals. The set of events noted in an almanac may be tailored for a specific group of readers, such as farmers, sailors, or astronomers.