The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

Chapter 2: THE COMIC ALMANACK AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST AND EARNEST, CONTAINING MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY, QUIPS, AND ODDITIES.

By William Makepeace Thackeray

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The volume collects annual almanac-style material—satirical sketches, comic essays, mock-astrological pieces, humorous verse, and brief narrative vignettes—assembled as a running sequence of yearly numbers. Multiple contributors supply witty sayings, droll observations, and recurring columns, all accompanied by hundreds of woodcuts and engraved plates by prominent illustrators. The pieces alternate light parody and sharper social satire, using playful formats, topical jokes, and caricatured scenes to amuse readers across varied short items.

NOTICE.

A SECOND SERIES of "THE COMIC ALMANACK," embracing the years 1844—53, a ten years' gathering of the Best Humour, the Wittiest Sayings, the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things of Thackeray, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A'Beckett, Robert Brough, with nearly one thousand Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by the inimitable Cruikshank, Hine, Landells—

may also be had of the Publishers of this volume, and uniform

with it, nearly 600 pages, price 7s. 6d.

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THE
COMIC ALMANACK
AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST AND EARNEST, CONTAINING
MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY,
QUIPS, AND ODDITIES.

THACKERAY, ALBERT SMITH, GILBERT A. BECKETT,

THE BROTHERS MAYHEW.

"FULL INSIDE, SIR, BUT PLENTY OF ROOM ON THE ROOF."

With many Hundred Illustrations

By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

AND OTHER ARTISTS.

FIRST SERIES, 1835-1843.

London:

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.