On or about 22 November the Stationers’ Company issued the next year’s almanacs from its hall off Ludgate Street. When the clock struck the gates were thrown open and an army of porters rushed in, seized the canvas bags of almanacs piled on the tables and floor, and within an hour or two had them on the railways to every town and parish in England.
Almanac Day at Stationers’ Hall
22 November · Stationers' Hall, London
No longer kept
The day on which the Stationers' Company issue their almanacs to the public (on or near the 22d November) presents a very animated and exciting scene
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 2, p. 716. Read the original
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