[Printed item.] Thorley's Illustrated Farmers' Almanack and Diary. 1895.

64pp., 12mo. In illustrated coloured printed wraps, with the front cover showing a selection of well-fed farmyard animals on a green in front of what looks like Windsor Castle. With three plates printed in brown: '"Sport Provided"' (boy hiding under bridge tampering with maid's fishing line), 'An Old Offender' by G. E. Robertson (double page, man in eighteenth-century dress shaking his fist at a donkey in a pound) and '"The Omnibus Driver's Story"' (omnibus driver and four passengers). In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight staining to back cover. Includes diary (with 'Date Memoranda' and 'Cash Account'), followed by useful and amusing features. Numerous advertisements (some illustrated) for such products as 'Day, Son & Hewitt's Never Failing Animal Medicines', 'Thorley's Lactifer' and 'Youngman's Alterative Pig Powders'. Scarce: no copy on COPAC.