• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Vade mecum: or, The necessary companion : Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack, ... curiously graved in copper; with many useful tables proper thereto. 2. The years of each king's reign from the Norman conquest compar'd with the years of Christ. 3. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchin, and flower-gardens. 4. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins, wherein is a table of the assize of bread. 5. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, or shillings, are ready cast up; ... 6. The interest and rebate of money; the forebearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. 7. The rates of post-letters, both inland and outland. 8. An account of the penny-post. 9. The principal roads of England, ... also the market-towns, on each road, with the days of the week the markets are kept on; ... 10. The names of the counties, cities, and borough-towns in England and Wales, ... 11. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen
  • Work titles: Perpetual almanack
  • Contributor: Playford, John [Author]; Morland, Samuel Sir [Other]
  • Published: London: printed by A.G. for Tho. Sawbridge, at the Sign of the three Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain, 1687
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Issue: The fourth edition, much enlarged
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([8], 208, 203-207, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates); ill. (table)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc Early works to 1800 ; Ready-reckoners Early works to 1800 ; Roads England Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2012:03)
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Copy is either misbound or microfilmed out of sequence; microfilmed at end of text are 10 leaves, and pgs. 152-153, 178-179, 180-181 are filmed with breaks between them, possible where the leaves are
    Divisional title page on pg. 165: Tables for the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities
    With initial table of contents
    Reproduction of the original at the Bodleian Library
    Wing (2nd ed.), P2507
    Dedication signed by John Playford
    [3] p. at end = advertisements
    Gathered in 4's
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