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GREAT BRITAIN., Parliament.
[Bills. 1751:02:25]
A Bill, intituled, An Act for regulating the commencement of the year; and for correcting the calendar now in use.
London (Place), [1751].
6, [24] p. : tables ; 41.0 cm. (2°)

Drop-head title. With a docket-title as above on last leaf of tables, which have separate register and title-leaf reading 'The New Calendar, Tables, And Rules, Mentioned, and referred to, in the Bill For Regulating ... '. Enacted as Public General Acts, 24 Geo.II.c.23. ESTC n60497.

Copy Notes Dates inserted in the relevant spaces in red ink, and an extended clause appended to the margin on p.5. Catchword 'Another' replaced by General in ink at the foot of the 'Table to find Easter-Day from the Year 1900' (leaf E2v). Formerly folded. The 'Tables' bound before the text. Bound together (2) with Observations on the past growth and present state of the city of London, 1751 (q.v.) and two tables of Royal Institution accounts for 1809 (q.v.).

Binding C19th marbled-paper boards, blue grained binder's cloth spine, gilt-ruled, gilt lettered 'Pamphlets - London'. Numbered '63' in a series of pamphlet volumes.

Reference Number 5545

Additional Names Public General Acts. 1751. 24 Geo.II.23


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