Text: N. P. Willis (?), Notice of the Keepsake, Evening Mirror (New York), December 30, 1844, vol. 1, no. 72, p. 2, col. 5

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THE KEEPSAKE. — A Christmas, New Year's and Birthday present for 1845. Illustrated with ten steel engravings. New York, D. Appleton and Co. Philadelphia, George S. Appleton. — We certainly have improved within a few years in the nature and quality of the presents that we make to our friends. It would be a curious collection could the trifles, called Keepsakes, which were so named by the last generation, among any circle of friends be collected for shows. Then they were “trifles light as air,” whose appropriate name was Vanity. Now, as is verified by this Keepsake of D. Appleton and Co., we present them with sumptuous adornings, elegant pictorial embellishments, costly workmanship, and an intellectual feast.