[Printed item with chromolithograph by Leighton Brothers of Drury Lane.] Thorley's Illustrated Farmers' Almanack and Diary, 1887.

48pp., 12mo. In illustrated coloured printed wraps, with the front cover showing a farmyard scene, and the back cover carrying a portrait of 'H.R.H. the Prince of Wales | President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1886. | President of Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 1886.' The double-page chromolithograph, between pp.16 and 17, is titled '"Since we were boys together." From a painting by A. W. Holden', and shows two eighteenth-century gentlemen, seated at a table, drinking and reminiscing. Also tipped in the volume is a handbill (1p., 12mo) recording the 'Practical Results of using Thorley's Food for Cattle'. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with dogeared corners, creasing to the fore-edge of the title-leaf, and heavier wear and creasing to the wraps. Includes diary (with 'Anniversaires, Remarkable Events, &c.' and 'Cash Account'), followed by useful and amusing features, including a page of 'Household Recipes'. Advertisements for 'Thorley's Foot for Cattle', Thorley's Feeding Cake' and 'Lactifer'. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC at Oxford University.