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Though Ackermann emigrated to London in the 1780s and became a naturalized citizen in 1809, he never cut ties with her German roots. Ackermann admittedly borrowed from the German tradition of the “Taschenbuch,” or pocket-book, “a small book, adapted…

The Ladies Diary, published 1704-1840, eschewed astrology and prediction for mathematical problems, typically including enigmas, queries, and the answers to the previous year's questions. On the final pages of the 1768, 1821, and 1822 Diary, the…

In this volume, readers are allowed the luxury of only one completely blank leaf (recto and verso) on which to write. This particular one shilling three pence almanac was published by Longman, Hurst, a publishing house that would split into two…

With Simpson’s almanac, its ruled pages invite the user not only to reference the information but also to record data himself much like the 1824 and 1825 volumes of Friendship’s Offering, another very successful literary annual. The ruled pages are…

Simpson's Gentleman’s Almanack and Pocket Journal for 1816, a Stationers' Company publication, acts as a reference for its business-minded male readers, not a workbook of mathematical problems, as is indicated by its Contents page. With its charts,…

Though British almanacs represent much of the format of RudolphAckermann's and other publishers' initial forays into the literary annual, Ackermann and his editor Frederic Shoberl credit the French for the development of the annual. In the 1823…

The1781 volume of the Almanach des Muses opens its pages with a calendar, lunar phases, important dates, and then begins paginating 300 pages of fugitive verses. (from Harris' Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual)

Ackermann also attributes his literary annual form to an earlier almanac, Almanach des Muses, published in France 1765 through 1833. The original covers are flimsy paper with no board for support; the 1767 and 1781 volumes contain only one engraving,…