The gentleman's diary, or, The mathematical repository
Subtitle: an almanack for the year of our Lord, 1757 : being the first after bissextile, or leap-year : containing many useful and entertaining particulars, peculairly adapted to the ingenious gentlemen engaged in the delightful study and practice of the mathematicks : the seventeenth almanack published of this kind; and the fifth of the New Style in England
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1757
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Early works to 1800; Riddles; Mathematics; Problems, exercises
Other titles: The mathematical repository
Notes: Signatures: A-C⁸.

Titlepage in red and black, within a double rule; t.p. verso and tables also printed in red and black.

Pages 17-48 have math problems and enigmas, with the solutions for those of the previous year.

"An alphabetical catalogue of contributors to this Diary," p. 48.

ESTC T57478

Contemporary inscription on front fly-leaf: Olive [J?] King August 8. 1757 on board the Royal Ann at Spithead; additional inscription, in the same hand: Monday 18 August 1747; ms. table of contents for the volume on back fly-leaf, in the same hand; red "two pence" tax stamp on t.p.

No. 4 in a volume containing 14 English almanacs for 1757.

Bound in contemporary dark brown calf, with spine and covers gilt; "1757" in gilt on spine.