Here's a cute little book - The Shakespeare Birthday Book!
It's only about 10 x 7cm, and has space for every day of the year to fill in people's birthdays, plus daily Shakespeare quotes.
There's no date in it, but a previous owner has put years next to some people's names (probably their birth-years); the earliest is 1819 and the latest is 1873.
An interesting point (to me!) is the spelling of 'Shakespeare'. Nowadays 'Shakespeare' is the accepted spelling, but that's only been the case since the end of the 19th century. His name has been spelt various ways over the years, even during his lifetime. The cover of this book spells it 'Shakspeare', which was a popular spelling from the late 18th to the early 19th century. However in the preface, it's spelled 'Shakespeare'. So perhaps this book is an example of the time towards the end of the 19th century when people were moving towards today's spelling, but it still wasn't standardised.
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