Goldsmith’s Almanack, 1715

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Date:1715

Description:Amongst the personal papers of Sir John Leveson-Gower, 2nd Baron Gower and 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754) is a tiny leather bound book entitled ‘Goldsmith, 1715 An Almanack’. The title pages states that the book contains ‘necessary rules and useful tables’.

The printed book includes advertisements such as one which reads: ‘Artifical Teeth set in so well , as to eat with them, and not to be discover’d from Natural. Also Teeth cleaned and drawn, by J. Watts Operator, 1a Racquet-Court, Fleetstreet’.

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