The ladies diary, or, The woman's almanack for the year of our lord 1739 : being the third after bissextile or leap-year : containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the use and diversion of the fair-sex.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilde, Allington, 1700-1770, printer.

Tipper, John, -1713.

Beighton, Henry, 1686 or 1687-1743.

Stationers' Company (London, England), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Periodicals.

Almanacs, English.

Rebuses.

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, 22 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Woman's almanack for the year of our lord 1739

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed by A. Wilde for the Company of Stationers, 1739.

Notes:

"Being the thirty-sixth almanack ever publish'd of this kind."

Part (sig. B) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 16,500 copies printed.

Originally compiled by John Tipper.

Title page and almanac (first signature) printed in red and black.

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]-B⁸C⁴.

Local Notes:

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 4 of 13]

RBC copy signed "Thomas Wright, Dorchester" on front free endpaper.

RBC copy has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.

Cited in:

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2628

ESTC T58243

OCLC:

701827574