The Bijou, or, Annual of literature and the arts
Publisher: William Pickering
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: English prose literature
Notes: Engraved title page.

Editor's preface signed: W. F.

Printer's mark ("Thomas White, printer, Crane Court") on p. [1] at end.

Pages 242-243 misnumbered 342-343; numbers 76-81 and 235-244 are repeated in the pagination.

"The wood-cut facsimile alluded to in the note on p. 308, was found to be too large for the work, it has therefore been thought advisable to omit it"--p. xii.

Also issued with imprint: London, Wiliam Pickering, Chancery Lane, & Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia, 1828.

A later printing has the page numbering corrected and has an erratum note on p. xii.

Faxon, F.W. ^Literary annuals, 1087

Signed: Maria B. Sedgwick.

Inscribed: Miss Josephine Pollitt, given to her by her kind aunt.

Ownership label on front pastedown: Mr. Thomas Storey, Westfield House, Lancaster.

Imperfect: engraved title page, dedication leaf (p. [iii]-[iv]), and plates facing p. [77] (second count) and p. [99] wanting.

Imperfect: frontispiece wanting.

Publisher's advertisement ("Important works published by William Pickering, Chancery Lane, London") on an additional [4] p. at end.

Engraved head pieces printed on India paper and mounted.

With facsimile of a leaf from Queen Elizabeth's prayer book, usually omitted from this printing, bound in at p. 308.

Bound in half brown leather and marbled paper-covered boards, edges sprinkled brown.

Bound in original half red morocco and decorated paper-covered boards with Pickering imprint, all edges gilt.

Bound in full green morocco, gilt, red coated endpapers, all edges gilt.