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The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, [electronic resource] : for the year 1790. Being...

The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, [electronic resource] : for the year 1790. Being...

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The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, [electronic resource] : 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.

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The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, [electronic resource] : 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.

Publisher

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

Date

[1790]

Record Identifier

74Vvxpj6kDWy

MMS ID

991016645139702626

Language

English

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Physical content

144,[12]p. ; 12°.

Publication information

Publisher

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

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1790]

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Access Conditions

Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

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Full title

The ladies most elegant and convenient pocket book, [electronic resource] : 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 necess...

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Notes

General note

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

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Citation / References Note

ESTC T207762.

Roscoe, A7 (164)

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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Record Identifier

74Vvxpj6kDWy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvxpj6kDWy

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MMS ID

991016645139702626