Loweel, Ayer, 1898. 32 pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Cherry Pectoral and his other nostrums. The first issue of this almanac was published in 1847, the last in 1911. The patent medicine almanac was a sort of informal textbook for educating the American people. No other printed sources, except the Bible, were issued in such large editions. See Young, Toadstool Millionaires p. 138-140.