McComb’s Presbyterian Almanack & Christian Remembrancer for 1865. Being First After Leap Lear. Belfast: James Cleeland, 1865. Pp 118 + Advertisments, including for The Poetical Works of Willima M’Comb. London: Hamilton, 1864.Publisher’s blue paper wrappers bound in navy cloth boards. A very good copy.

Frontispiece portrait of Willima M’Comb.

Published from 1840, McComb’s Almanack combined the usual information found in almanacs with verses by himself, lists of Presbyterian ministers, and accounts of the progress of Presbyterianism in Ireland, Scotland, and America, and the Continent.

 Willima M’Comb (1793-1873), journalist and poet retired in 1864, though his almanac continued until 1884.