Beautiful miniature almanac for the year 1819, published by Janet, one of the most well-known producers of miniature books of his time. The work is a so-called "almanach chantant", a miniature almanac of less than 3 centimetres in size, with 64 pages, and illustrations. Typically intended for women, they were usually beautifully bound and contained poetry and love songs. The present example, which has curiously been bound upside down, contains several illustrated love songs, some of which are allegorical, and a calendar. The illustrations depict men and women engaged in a variety of different activities, dressed in the fashion of the time. Several issues of the almanac were published in the same year, with a different number of illustrations, and some with the publisher's name on the title page.
The boards and spine have been somewhat rubbed. The leaves are lightly browned. Otherwise in good condition. Grand-Carteret 1869; cf. Nauroy p. 75 (other issue); Welsh 5630 (other issue).