[R. & A. Suttaby sample book for 1853]
Contributors: Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852; Havell, William, 1782-1857; Brian, John, fl. 1836-1879; Adlard, Henry; Marchant, J.; Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: R. & A. Suttaby
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Title based on contents.

Consists of mounted samples of engraved title pages, frontispieces and illustrations from annual pocket books and almanacks by the publishers Robert and Arthur Suttaby.

Publisher's statement taken from t.p. samples within sample book.

Col. engraved plate accompanying t.p. on leaf [1] with imprints: "Drawn by S. Prout." and "J. M. Kronheim & Co.".

Col. engraved plate accompanying t.p. on leaf [4] with imprints: "Printed in oil colours by J. M. Kronheim & Co." and "After designs by Wm. Havell".

Several engraved illustrations are engraved by J. Brain after W. Havell and H. Adlard after J. Marchant.  Two are engraved by F. J. Havell after W. Havell and one is engraved by S. Fisher after G. Salmon.  Another is engraved by Manwaring.

Leaves [5-6] are blank.

Sample plates on leaves [1-2] are printed in brown and the plates on leaf [3] are printed in blue and brown.

MASS copy: Bound in half black roan and teal-green wavy ripple-grain cloth with the date "1853" blocked in gold on the upper cover.  Lacking leaves [2-3].
Table of contents: value: Le souvenir, or pocket tablet for 1853 / with illustrations in oil colours by J. M. Kronheim & Co.; value: Marshall's ladies' fashionable repository for 1853; value: Poole's select pocket remembrancer, 1853; value: Poole's ladies & gentlemans' polite assistant and useful remembrancer for 1853, containing an almanack, the Sovereigns of Europe, lists of both Houses of Parliament, engagements, cash accounts, and a variety of useful information; value: The lady's own almanack and diary, 1853; value: Marshall's gentlemans' pocket book for 1853; value: The gentlemans' pocket remembrancer for 1853; value: The gem or, Useful pocket book, adapted for youth, 1853; value: The universal pocket diary for 1853; value: The universal remembrancer for 1853.