File 07 - Engraved headpieces of monthly sheet almanacs

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GB 2156 TSC/STO/E/08/07

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Engraved headpieces of monthly sheet almanacs

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  • 1725-1832 (Creation)

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1 volume and 2 folders

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Assorted prints and engravings:

  • ten engravings cut from the headpieces of editions of the Stationers' Almanack from 1778 to 1787 and bound into a book;

  • mounted engraving of Tycho Wing's printer's device;

  • ten engravings cut from the headpieces of editions of the Stationers' Almanack from 1758 to 1767, unbound;

  • engravings cut from the headpieces of the Stationers' Almanack. 1805;

  • single sheet almanac, 'Stationers' Company Almanac for 1877';

  • single sheet almanac, 'Stationers' Almanack', 1768;

  • single sheet almanac by M. F. Philomath, 1779;

  • single sheet almanac by M. F. Philomath, 1764;

  • single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1774;

  • single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1779;

  • single sheet almanac by Vincent Wing, 1725;

    • advertisements for almanacs published by the Company of Stationers, 1831 and 1832;

    • lower section cut from the Cambridge Almanack, previously used to wrap a bunde of bankers' vouchers from 1767. Text contains a note of the change from the Julian calendar (Old Style dating) to the Gregorian calendar (New Style dating), which took place in Britain and its colonies in 1752.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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Microfilm copies are on reel 98, 'Records of the Stationers' Company 1554-1920: 115 Reels of Microfilm with Printed Guide', published by Chadwyck-Healy Ltd (1989)

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Partially missing

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