The Illustrated London Almanack. London: at the Office of the London Illustrated News, 1863-1874. 12 issues, 4to (269 x 190mm.) 70 chromolithographed plates of fish, ferns, funghi, butterflies and birds, including decorative chromolithographed covers bound-in, tinted astronomical plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations. (Toning, marginal chipping to 1863 issue, preliminaries and 1863 title detached, lacking the covers for 1863 and 1865 issues.) Contemporary red full morocco, gilt lettering to spine (extremities rubbed, inner hinge weakened).