Friendship's offering
Subtitle: or, The annual remembrancer : a Christmas present or New Year's gift for 1825.
Contributors: Heath, Charles, 1785-1848.; Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.; Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.; Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874.; Maurice, D. S., printer; Fenner, Sears & Co.
Publisher: Lupton Relfe
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Annual remembrancer :; Friendship's offering: ; Friendship's offering :
Notes: Added steel-engraved and hand-coloured t.p.

Includes additional p. "*155-*156" between p. 154-155, p. "*237-*238" between p. 236-237 and p. "*261-*262" between p. 260-261.

Most steel-engraved plates include etched lines.

Includes preliminary steel-engraved presentation plate.

Includes preliminary engraved dedication plate with imprints: "Fenner, sculpt." and "Paternoster Row.".

Includes small "Plan of the new Seraglio": p. 22.

Includes 3 plates of music entitled: "Trio for two Performers on the Piano Forte, with an Accompaniment for the Flute.".

Includes blank date book (p. [2-61] at end) printed in letterpress with days of the week, rule borders and small wood-engraved illustrations.  Illustrations are unsigned.

Two plates are engraved by C. Heath after R. Westall and T. Stothard.  One plate is signed as engraved by "T. Boys".

Part of an annual series published in London by Lupton Relfe from 1824-1827 and by Smith, Elder & Co. from 1828-1844. Cf. Faxon, Frederick W.  Literary annuals and gift books, 1973.

Faxon, F. W. Literary annuals and gift books, p. 93-95.

MASS copy 1: Bound in pale pastel pink embossed paper-covered boards; a.e.g.  Covers embossed with classical ornamental design.  Spine blocked in gold.  Encased in a beige paper-covered cardboard slip case open at the top and bottom edges.  Upper cover of slip case pasted with full paper onlay steel-engraved with title and decorative architectural border.  Sides of slip case pasted with full paper onlays steel-engraved with architectural details and sculptural niches.  Paper onlays are hand-coloured.   With later ownership label: "Geo. H. Brook".  

MASS copy 2: Bound in pale pastel pink paper-covered boards embossed in the same design as copy 1, except lacking central embossing; a.e.g.  Lacking spine.  Without slip case.  A different edition than copy 1 with a different setting of type, lacking printer's imprint on t.p. verso, and signature in a different location on engraved dedication page.