Forget me not
Subtitle: a Christmas, New Year's, and birth-day present for MDCCCXXXI
By: edited by Frederic Shoberl.
Contributors: Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853.; Chevalier, William, 1804-1866.; Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857.; Agar, John Samuel, ca. 1770-ca. 1835.; Freebairn, Alfred Robert, 1794-1846.; Graves, Robert, 1798-1873.; Shenton, Henry Chawner, 1803-1866.; Carter, James, 1798-1855.; Rolls, Charles, b. 1800.; Marr, Charles W., fl. 1821-1836.; Finden, W. 1787-1852.; Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848.; Martin, John, 1789-1854.; Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852.; Corbould, H. 1787-1844.; Purser, William, ca. 1790-ca. 1852.; Stephanoff, Francis Philip, 1788-1860.; Westall, William, 1781-1850.; Mitan, Samuel, 1786-1843.; Davison, Thomas, d. 1831 (printer)
Publisher: R. Ackermann
Published: 1831
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Forget me not :
Notes: Added steel-engraved illustrated t.p.

Most steel-engraved plates are with imprint: "Pub. by R. Ackermann & Co. London." or "Pubd. by R. Ackermann, London.".  Plates are with captions.

Plates are engraved by W. Chevalier, E. Finden, J. Agar, A. Freebairn, R. Graves, H. C. Shenton, J. Carter, C. Rolls, C. Marr and W. Finden after F. Burney, J. Martin, Miss L. Sharpe, G. Barrett, E. Landseer, J. Knight, A. Chisholme, S. Prout, H. Corbould, W. Purser, P. Stephanoff, T. Phillips, W. Westall and J. R. West.

Includes preliminary leaf embossed with an ornamental border design left blank in the centre for inscriptions.  Paper surrounding embossed design is printed in dark yellow.

Part of an annual series published in London by R. Ackermann and Ackermann & Co. from 1822-1847.  Cf. Faxon, Frederick W.  Literary annuals and gift books, 1973.

"This volume may be considered as completing the first series of the Forget Me Not; as it is the intention of the Publisher, in compliance with the suggestion of many of the friends of the work, to make, next year, an alteration in its external appearance, by employing paper of a somewhat larger size, and exchanging the certainly delicate but somewhat too frail cover, by which it has hitherto been distinguished, for a more durable binding in silk."--Preface.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [383]-386 at end entitled: "Works of art by or to be had of R. Ackermann, 96, Strand, book and printseller and superfine water-colour manufacturer to his majesty; also of R. Ackermann, Jun., 191, Regent-Street."

Faxon, F. W. Literary annuals, p. 91-93.

MASS copy: In original glazed green paper-covered boards; a.e.g.  Upper cover printed in black with title and ornamental border design.  Lower cover printed in black with central classical design.  Covers with signature: "Mitan.Sc.".  With pale yellow glazed endpapers.  Encased in a beige paper-covered cardboard slip case open at the top and bottom edges.  Upper and lower covers of slip case pasted with the same glazed green paper and printed in black with the same images and with the same signature as those on the upper and lower boards.  With presentation inscription dated 1831.