Royal Bijou Birthday Book: a selection from the poetical works of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Hood, Tennyson, Moore, Burns, Cowper, Scott, Goldsmith, Hemans, Byron, Milton. Eyre & Spottiswoode, His Majesty's Printers, Downs Park Road, N.E. London. Circa 1901. 377, [1] printed pages. Printed in red and black throughout; red is used for dates and black for text. Two dates are listed on each page. Left page contains poems for dates; right page contains blank space for writing under each date. A small number of ink and pencil contemporary name entries dotted throughout. Complete with fully hallmarked silver plaquette on front cover, for Birmingham, 1905-6, S. Blackensee & Son Limited. Registration mark Rd. 455929. With 'Birthdays' and an art nouveau background of a flower, leaves and stems. Front free endpapers stuck together. A few spots throughout. Rear paste-down endpaper slightly dampstained. Some slight marginal 'bleeding' of the red edges. Some leaves with some minuscule damage on the fore-edge. Rounded corners. All edges gilt over red. 50 x 56 mm. Original red straight-grained morocco; spine with gilt titling and an art nouveau design in gilt with 'London' at the foot (slight rubbing to head and tail of spine; a minuscule old ink stain on the back cover). Welsh, 6075. OCLC, 256077070. WorldCat locates copies 6 worldwide. 121 firsts2024