The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1775 : containing amongst a great v...
The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1775 : containing amongst a great variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive articles, the following : the necessary pages for engagements, memorandums, and expenses, ruled in a more plain and familiar manner than any yet adapted for the use of the Ladies; remarkable days in the year; a general scheme of precedence; list of the Royal Family of Great Britain; ages of the principal sovereigns in Europe; perpetual diary; original essays; favourite new songs sung at the public garden, and country dances, set to music; the necessary rates of coachmen, chairmen, &c. All the useful marketing, expence, and interest tables, &c. With a correct list of holidays / compiled at the Request of several Ladies of Quaity.
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Full title
Publisher
London : Printed for J. Wheble; and sold by J. Bew, in Pater-Noster Row, [1775].
Date
[1775].
Call Numbers
MRB/181
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
156 p., 2 engraved leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., music ; 13 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
London : Printed for J. Wheble; and sold by J. Bew, in Pater-Noster Row, [1775].
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
[1775].
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Full title
The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, for the year 1775 : containing amongst a great variety of useful, ornamental, and instructive articles, the following : the necessary pages for engagements, memorandums, and expenses, ruled in a more plain and familiar manner than any yet adapted for the use of the Ladies; remarkable days in the y...
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Notes
General note
Mitchell Library Rare Books copy at MRB/181: Acquired from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne, 2012. Includes contemporary manuscript entries (including recipes and household expenditure), owner's inscription on front free endpaper....
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Call Numbers
MRB/181
Record Identifier
74VvWQEz666d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWQEz666d
Other Identifiers
DDC
655.442
MMS ID
991012064619702626
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