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The ladies diary, or, The woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1736 : being the bissextile, or leap-year : containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the use and diversion of the fair-sex.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AY751 .L23 1736
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Periodicals.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
- Rebuses.
- Almanacs, English.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Almanacs.
- Periodicals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy)
- Wright, Thomas (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 23 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1736
- Fingerprint:
- wn's 4.ys E:xc AdFa (3) 1736 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1736.
- Notes:
- "Being the thirty-third almanack ever publish'd of this kind."
- Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴.
- Titlepage in red and black.
- 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.
- Part (sig. B) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 16,500 copies printed.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy signed 'Thomas Wright, Dorchester" on front free endpaper.
- RBC copy has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
- RBC copy is no. 1 in a volume of 13 annual issues of this title (1736-1748) bound together.
- Cited in:
- Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2203
- ESTC T058240
- OCLC:
- 228747716
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