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NOTICE.

The FIRST SERIES of "THE COMIC ALMANACK,"from 1835 to 1843, a nine years' gathering of the BestHumour, the Wittiest Sayings, the Drollest Quips, and theBest Things of Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith,A'Beckett, Robert Brough, with nearly one thousand Woodcutsand Steel Engravings by the inimitable Cruikshank, Hine,Landells

May now be had of the Publishers, crown 8vo, 600 pp.,
price 7s. 6d.
The First Series and the present (or Second Series) comprise
THE COMPLETE WORK, extending from 1835 to 1853.
THE
COMIC ALMANACK,
2nd Series, 1844-1853.

Probable Effects of Over Female-Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting all our own to Australia!!!!!

THE
COMIC ALMANACK
AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST AND EARNEST, CONTAINING
MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY.
QUIPS, AND ODDITIES.

BY
THACKERAY, ALBERT SMITH, GILBERT A BECKETT,
THE BROTHERS MAYHEW.

"THE APPROACH OF BLUCHER.—INTREPID ADVANCE OF THE 1ST FOOT."

With many Hundred Illustrations
By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
AND OTHER ARTISTS.
SECOND SERIES, 1844-1853.
London:
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.

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