The ladies diary, or, The woman's almanack for the year of our lord 1742
Subtitle: being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Containing many delightful and entertaining particulars, peculiarly adapted for the use and diversion of the Fair-Sex
Edition: "Being the thirty-ninth almanack ever publish'd of this kind."
Publisher: Printed by A. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Mathematics; Periodicals; Problems, exercises; Early works to 1800; Riddles; Mathematical recreations; English Almanacs; Advertising; Medicine
Other titles: Woman's almanack for the year of our lord 1742; Woman's almanack, 1742
Notes: "Originally compiled by John Tipper. Edited from 1714-1743 by Henry Beighton; 1744-1753 by Robert Heath; 1754-1760 by Thomas Simpson and from 1773-1818 by Charles Hutton."--ESTC.

Probably published and available at the end of 1741.

"Part (sig. B) printed by William Bowyer; his records show 16,000 copies printed."--ESTC.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B⁸ C⁴.

Title-page and almanac (first signature) printed in red and black.

Title-page has a woodcut port. of Queen Anne

Advertisements: page [4], 1st group, and page 24.

Errata for the previous year: page 23.

ESTC T58246

Bowyer ledgers 2977

Bound as no. 5 in v.1 of a collection of 15th- and 16th-century almanacs.

Tax stamp on title-page; bound in 17th-cent. or early 18th-cent. mottled sheep; gold rules on spine, with red morocco lettering-piece.