| dc.date.accessioned |
2016-05-17T13:32:31Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2016-05-17T13:32:31Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
1774 |
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| dc.identifier.citation |
St. George Tucker Signature Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.other |
AY326.W7 V81 1774 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10288/22225 |
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| dc.format.extent |
[46] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. |
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| dc.language.iso |
eng |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Almanacs, American--Virginia |
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| dc.title |
The Virginia almanack for the year of our Lord God 1774 : being the second after bissextile or leap year ... |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Text |
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| dc.description.note |
Formerly part of Swem Library's Tucker-Coleman Collection. |
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| dc.description.note |
Signatures: A-D⁶ |
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| dc.description.note |
Woodcut of the anatomical man on p. [3]. |
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| dc.description.note |
A list of the representatives for this colony, p. [42]-[43]. |
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| dc.description.note |
A list of parishes and the ministers in them, p. [44]-[45]. |
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| dc.description.note |
Separate pages enclosed: "List of Books, on the Division of Mr. Slaters Library which fell to my share ..." |
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| dc.description.note |
Bound with "paste paper" in a pattern of blue and white lines, interleaved with blank pages which contain manuscript notes, contemporary verse and quotes from Dryden, Waller, Donne, and Cowley, and diary entries by St. George Tucker. The page interleaved in Feb. is inscribed: "Oh! Dies infaustus!" One of the pages interleaved in Apr. is inscribed: " ... Examined in the Law by Mr. Wythe. ... Obtained a lycence to practice the Law." Travel notes for a trip to Charlestown in July include: "I did not see a lady in Charlestown that I liked half so well -- " and "25th: Went to see the electrical fishes." and 26th: " ... Women talk like the negroes and neatness not so much in vogue there as in Virginia." Travel notes for a trip from New York include an entry for Sept. 6th: "Overtaken at Trenton by an express with the acct that Boston was bombarded ...;" Oct. 8th: "Visited Mr. Tudor, -- a very cool reception -- not treated in a manner agreeable to my expectations -- Resolved never to have paid him a similar compliment had I staid a twelvemonth in New York ..." |
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| dc.type.genre |
Almanacs |
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| dc.publisher.original |
Williamsburg : Printed and sold by Purdie & Dixon, [1773?] |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.printer |
Purdie and Dixon, printer |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.formerowner |
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827, former owner |
en_US |
| dcterms.isPartOf |
Rare Books: St. George Tucker signature |
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