Additional Resources
Book length histories, bibliographies, and indexes in Oberlin College Libraries:
- Faxon, Frederick W. Literary annuals and gift books; a bibliography with a descriptive introduction. Boston, Boston Book Co., 1912
- Felmingham, Michael. The illustrated gift book, 1880-1930 : with a checklist of 2500 titles. Aldershot : Scolar Press, 1988.
- Harris, Katherine D. Forget me not : the rise of the British literary annual, 1823-1835. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2015.
- Janzen Kooistra, Lorraine. Athens, Ohio : Poetry, pictures, and popular publishing : the illustrated gift book and Victorian visual culture, 1855-1875. Ohio University Press, c2011
- Kirkham, Bruce E. Indices to American literary annuals and gift books, 1825-1865. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975.
- Lachèvre, Frédéric. Bibliographie sommaire des keepsakes et autres recueils collectifs de la période romantique, 1823-1848. Paris, L. Giraud-Badin, 1929.
- Thompson, Ralph. American literary annuals & gift books, 1825-1865. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1936.
Articles:
- Booth, Bradford A. "A Note on an Index to the American Annuals and Gift Books". In American Literature, 11/1938, Vol. 10, No. 3.
- Dawson, Clara. "Mechanical Reproduction, Commodity, and the Gift-Annual Aesthetic". In Studies in Romanticism, 09/2021, Volume 60, Issue 3
- James, Alan E. "Literary Annuals and Gift Books". In The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 03/2012, Volume 1, Issue 2.
- Ledbetter, Katheryn. ""BeGemmed and beAmuletted": Tennyson and Those "Vapid" Gift Books". In Victorian Poetry, 07/1996, Volume 34, Issue 2.
- Ledbetter, Katheryn. ""White Vellum and Gilt Edges": Imaging The Keepsake". Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring 1997, Vol. 30, Issue 1.
- Lind, Douglas, W. "Repackaging Periodicals for the Holiday Season: The Peculiar Nature and Economics of Spurious Gift Book Production". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 09/2017, Volume 111, Issue 3.
- Mourão, Manuela. "Remembrance of Things Past: Literary Annuals' Self-Historicization". In Victorian Poetry. Spring 2012, Volume 50, Number 1.
- Rice, Kylan. ""Bird, Jewel, or Flower?"On the Tokenization of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry". In ELH, 09/2023, Volume 90, Issue 3.
- Thompson, Ralph. "American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, 1825-1865". In The Library Quarterly, 01/1937, Volume 7 Issue 1, p. 162.
Web Sites:
- The Loewentheil Collection of American Gift Annuals
- Gift Books & Annuals at the Library of Congress
- Gift Books at the Library Company of Philadelphia