Ladies daily companion for the year of our Lord 1789 : embellished wtih the following copper plates: an elegant representation of the discovery of the Earl of Leicester from the Recess, a lady in the dress of 1788, and four of the most fashionable head dresses ...

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Title: Ladies daily companion for the year of our Lord 1789 : embellished wtih the following copper plates: an elegant representation of the discovery of the Earl of Leicester from the Recess, a lady in the dress of 1788, and four of the most fashionable head dresses ...
Published / Created: [1788?]
Publication Place: Canterbury
Publisher: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby
Abstract: Includes diary in an unknown hand, 1789. Mentions a number of prominent people including Horace Walpole, Mlle. D'Eon, Mrs. Garrick, and others. Daily entries about her life and social contacts, records purchases of ribbons, rollers, glvoes, etc
Description: Plates wanting.
Signatures: [A]-N⁶.
Inscribed on flyleaf: "Given me by the Honble. Col. Cosmos Gordon. Margate, Nov. ye. 21st 1788."
In bibliographical file: two slips of paper, one with names of people mentioned and page references, and the other with a single name: Louisa Paoline Angelina Cosway (aet. 8). 1789-96.
Provenance: Elkin Mathews; May 1857.
Extent: [4], 144, [4] p. ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: LWL Mss Vol. 3

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Diaries
Record keeping works
Poetical miscellanies
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Social life and customs
Subjects: Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century

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Citation: Ladies daily companion for the year of our Lord 1789. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 7971060
Object ID (OID): 15959982