# Talk:The Token and Atlantic Souvenir

This is a minor question, but looking at the image of the inscription page made me curious: were the books typically dated with the following year? I once heard somewhere that a gift book published in, say, December 1831 would often have 1832 printed on it, for the same reason that one would give a planner or calendar of the upcoming year as a gift. But in other cases giftbooks were anthologies of a magazine's monthly releases from the preceding year, in which case they were not dated 'ahead'. If anybody has written about which case applies here, it might be nice to note/explain it. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

I believe you're right that each volume was published in the fall of the year preceding the year printed on the title page. If I can find a reliable source to verify, I'll add that fact somewhere. Dugan Murphy (talk) 04:14, 18 February 2025 (UTC)