The Keepsake

[1] Like other literary annuals, The Keepsake was an anthology of short fiction, poetry, essays, and engraved illustrations.

It was a gift book designed to appeal to young women, and was distinctive for its binding of scarlet dress silk and the quality of its illustrations.

[4] The Keepsake for 1829 is particularly notable for its contributors, which included the most popular authors and artists of the day, many of whose works now comprise the Romantic literary canon.

Well known contributors to this volume include Mary Shelley, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Robert Southey.

The names of the contributors were not listed, but they included Felicia Hemans, Percy Shelley, Letitia Landon, and Ainsworth himself.

Felicia Hemans contributed "The Broken Chain" and Letitia Landon,"The Altered River" and her "Verses" on Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford.

The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX (1829) – frontispiece, which repeats publisher data from the title page
The Seashore. Cornwall engraving by William Miller after R. P. Bonington , published in The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI (1831)