The ladies diary: or, The woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1741 : 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:

Tipper, John, -1713.

Wilde, Allington, 1700-1770, printer.

Beighton, Henry, 1686 or 1687-1743.

Stationers' Company (London, England), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, English.

Rebuses.

Mathematics--Periodicals.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.

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, 24 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1741

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1741.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁸ C⁴.

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

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

Edited from 1714-1743 by Henry Beighton; 1744-1753 by Robert Heath; 1754-1760 by Thomas Simpson and from 1773-1818 by Charles Hutton.

Originally compiled by John Tipper.

Titlepage in red and black.

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 6 of 13]

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

RBC copy has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.

Cited in:

ESTC T058245

Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 2874

OCLC:

30550880