used to list dates of friends' and relatives' birthdays, come in many editions with differing covers, illustrators, and numbers of pages
THE TENNYSON BIRTHDAY BOOK padded red leather covers
six illustrations in color by H.B.WIMBUSH, dated 1908, has a six page account of Tennyson's life followed by the dates of the year with space for a written entry, and each with a few lines from his different poems, and six full page plates in colour of English country scenes. bound in red padded leather with gilt lettering and decorations. All page edges are bright gilt. Contains a frontispiece of Tennyson
