17 volumes (including two copies of 1883, 1884, and 1886), 24mo and 12mo. Illustrated by Greenaway. Various original and variant bindings of cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, gilt-lettered imitation leather or cloth, some edges gilt; one copy of the 1886 Almanack in original dust jacket (overall some very light rubbing to a few volumes); red morocco-backed slipcase.

FIRST EDITIONS, A NEARLY COMPLETE SET (the publisher did not issue an Almanack for 1896), a few in variant bindings, ONE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. "The beginning of 1883 had seen the publication of Kate Greenaway's first Almanack... it achieved an enormous success, some 90,000 copies being sold in England, America, France, and Germany. It was succeeded by an almanac every year (with but one exception, 1896) until 1897...There are various little conceits about these charming productions which are calculated to appeal to the 'licquorish chapman of such wares'; so that complete sets of them already fetch respectable sums from the collectors of beautiful books" (Spielman & Layard (1905), p. 122).