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The ladies diary, or, The woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1742 : being the second after bissextile, or leap-year : containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the use and diversion of the fair-sex.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.
- Almanacs, English.
- Mathematics--Periodicals.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Rebuses.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Almanacs.
- Periodicals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Wright, Thomas (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 24 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1742
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1742.
- Notes:
- Titlepage in red and black.
- "Being the thirty-ninth almanack ever publish'd of this kind."
- Part (sig. B) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 16,000 copies printed.
- Originally compiled by John Tipper.
- Edited from 1714-1743 by Henry Beighton; 1744-1753 by Robert Heath; 1754-1760 by Thomas Simpson and from 1773-1818 by Charles Hutton.
- Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁸ C⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy is number 7 in a volume of 14 almanacs for the year 1742 bound together.
- Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1880, of Henry Charles Lea.
- RBC copy signed 'Thomas Wright, Dorchester" on front free endpaper.
- RBC copy has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
- RBC copy bound with: The ladies diary, or, The woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1736. [London] : Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1736. [item 7 of 13]
- Cited in:
- ESTC T58246
- Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2977
- OCLC:
- 228747721
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