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The Tom Thumb calendar, diary and proverb book for 1893.

Accession number
PML 252418
Published
Glasgow : David Bryce and Son, [1892] (Glasgow : Printed at the University Press)
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
The frontispiece is engraved on wood.
The paged introduction, signed J.I., discusses dwarfs and gives an account of "General Tom Thumb" [i.e. Charles Sherwood Stratton).
Each page has a date, proverb and record of an important event happening on that date.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 maroon morocco over cloth slipcase by J.P.W.
Description
13, [401] pages : illustration ; 54 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Original maroon pictorial cloth, edges stained red.
Classification
Department