The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1790. Being the Second after Leap Year. Embellished with the fashionable Dresses of the Year 1789, and a beautiful View of the Front of Carlton-House. Containing, Amongst a great Variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive Articles, the following: The necessary Pages for Engagements, Memorandums, and Expences, ruled in a more plain and familiar Manner than any yet adapted for the Use of the Ladies; Tables of all the moveable and immoveable Feasts, Fasts, and Holidays in the Year; Days and Hours for buying, accepting, or transferring Stock, and receiving Dividends; Holidays at the Public Offices; Royal Family of Great Britain; Regal Table; Sovereigns of Europe's Birth Days; Perpetual Diary; Interest Table; Essay on Ceremony; Reflexions on Forethought; on the Advantage of Society; A Lady's Choice in Matrimony; Ode to Sleep; A Nuptual Card; On a Watch; Receipts in Cosmetics and Medicine; The favourite Songs and Country Dances for the Year; New Rates of Coachmen and Watermen; with several useful Particulars, necessary Marketing Tables, &c. Compiled at the Request of several Ladies of Quality.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.

Almanacs, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144,[12]p. )

Other Title:

Ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for E. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate-Street, [1790]

Notes:

Price from imprint: price 1s. To be continued Annually.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

Roscoe, A7 (164)

English Short Title Catalog, T207762.

OCLC:

642529869