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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 v...

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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

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.

Publisher

London : Printed for J. Wheble; and sold by J. Bew, in Pater-Noster Row, [1775].

Date

[1775].

Call Numbers

MRB/181

Record Identifier

74VvWQEz666d

MMS ID

991012064619702626

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].

Subjects

Subjects and topics

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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

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DDC

655.442

MMS ID

991012064619702626

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