My Aunt Margaret's Mirror

By Scott, Sir Walter

Book Id: WPLBN0000676429
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
Author:	Scott, Sir Walter
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Walter Scott, B. S. (n.d.). My Aunt Margaret's Mirror. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Introduction: The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of Annual, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. Ackermann. The rapid success of his work, as is the custom of the time, gave birth to a host of rivals, and, among others, to an Annual styled The Keepsake, the first volume of which appeared in 1828, and attracted much notice, chiefly in consequence of the very uncommon splendour of its illustrative accompaniments. The expenditure which the spirited proprietors lavished on this magnificent volume is understood to have been not less than from ten to twelve thousand pounds sterling!