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Anon.
The Ladies' Diary: or Woman's Almanack.
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers, London;
Date of Publication: 1766
Stock Code: 14189
Small octavo, pp., 48, interleaved with blanks. Title-page in red and black ink with portrait vignette. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt ornament within gilt rolls to boards, gilt diaper design and titles to spine, edges mottled blue. Bookplate of the William Waples collection to front free endpaper. Binding a little rubbed, particularly to edges of boards and to spine, joints worn but holding firm. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A very good copy in a contemporary binding. An annually issued diary and puzzle book directed at women. Contains tables and calendars on astrological events, rebuses and mathematical problems. An early women’s almanack that promotes the learning of science and mathematics. £85.00