The ladies' diary, or, Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1779
Subtitle: being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. Containing new improvements in arts and sciences, and many entertaining particulars: designed for the use and diversion of the fair-sex : the seventy-sixth almanack published of this kind
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by George Hawkins, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street
Published: 1779
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Early works to 1800; Ephemerides; Chronology; Mathematical recreations; Mathematics; Problems, exercises; Riddles; Acrostics; Rebuses
Other titles: Woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1779
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.

Probably published and available at the end of 1778.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.

Pages [1]-[15], including the title-page, chronology, &c., monthly calendars, and eclipses, printed in red and black.

With a woodcut port. of Princess Charlotte on the title-page.

English short title catalogue, T58283

Tax stamp on title-page; bound as no. 4 in v.4 of a collection of of 17th- and 18th-century almanacs.

Bound in 18th-cent. sheep, very worn; gold rules on spine.