used to list dates of friends' and relatives' birthdays, come in many editions with differing covers, illustrators, and numbers of pages
THE DICKENS BIRTHDAY BOOK padded black leather covers
WITH 6 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR, has an account of Dickens's life followed by the dates of the year with space for a written entry, and each with a few lines from his different works. gold gilt page edges, gift inscription for 1917