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The ladies' diary, or, Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1801 : being the fifth after bissextile, or leap-year, and the first year of the nineteenth century. Containing new improvements in arts and sciences, and many entertaining particulars, designed for the use and diversion of the fair-sex.

Accession number
PML 142167.7
Published
London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, by M. Brown ... and sold by G. Greenhill, treasurer, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street, [1801]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Edited by Charles Hutton.
"The ninety-eighth almanack published of this kind."
Woodcut portrait (Queen Charlotte?) on t.p., with verse beneath: Virtue and sense, with female-softness join'd ... When Royal Charlotte's bright example fires.
Below imprint: Price stitched, sixteen-pence.
Includes rebuses, riddles, general queries, and mathematical queries and exercises; with answers provided for material published in the the previous issue.
Ladies diary ran 1704-1840, ed. (1773-1818) by Charles Hutton; later merged with Gentleman's diary to form Lady's diary and gentleman's diary.
8vo: A-C⁸.
Calendar and t.p. printed in red and black.
Tax stamp on t.p.
Description
48 p. : ill., port. ; 17 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department