Vade mecum: or, The necessary companion : Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack, ... curiously graved in copper; with many useful tables proper thereto. 2. The years of each king's reign from the Norman conquest compar'd with the years of Christ. 3. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchin, and flower-gardens. 4. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins, wherein is a table of the assize of bread. 5. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, or shillings, are ready cast up; ... 6. The interest and rebate of money; the forebearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. 7. The rates of post-letters, both inland and outland. 8. An account of the penny-post. 9. The principal roads of England, ... also the market-towns, on each road, with the days of the week the markets are kept on; ... 10. The names of the counties, cities, and borough-towns in England and Wales, ... 11. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Playford, John, approximately 1655-1685 or 1686.

Contributor:

Morland, S. (Samuel), Sir, 1625-1695.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc--Early works to 1800.

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

Ready-reckoners--Early works to 1800.

Ready-reckoners.

Roads--England--Early works to 1800.

Roads.

Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

England.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 208, 203-207 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (table)

Edition:

The fourth edition, much enlarged.

Other Title:

Vade mecum

Necessary companion.

Tables for the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by A.G. for Tho. Sawbridge, at the Sign of the three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain, 1687.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Dedication signed by John Playford.

[3] pages at end = advertisements.

With initial table of contents.

Gathered in 4's.

Divisional title page on pg. 165: Tables for the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities, ..

Copy is either misbound or microfilmed out of sequence; microfilmed at end of text are 10 leaves, and pgs. 152-153, 178-179, 180-181 are filmed with breaks between them, possible where the leaves are.

Reproduction of the original at the Bodleian Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2012:03) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) P2507.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.