DIARIES AND OTHER COMMERCIAL WORKS

PUBLISHED BY

LETTS, SON & STEER, 8, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

To guide such members of the Public as have not used our Diaries before in the selection of those Editions which will most probably suit them, we offer the following analysis, drawn from experience.

The Editions most generally adopted by

CLERGYMEN, are Nos. 9, 10 and 12.

PHYSICIANS and the MEDICAL PROFESSION, Nos. 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, and the M or Monthly Editions, No. 14 M, 17 M, 21 M, 23 M, the latter giving a large space to write on, without occupying much room in the Pocket, (TOURISTS also will find these convenient.)

SOLICITORS and the LEGAL PROFESSION, Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 9.

THE ARMY AND NAVY, Nos. 8, 9 and 10.

MERCHANTS, BANKERS, and GENTLEMEN IN OFFICIAL CAPACITIES, Nos. 51, 52 and 53; 1, 2 and 3; 6 and 7; 8, 9, 10, 11, &c. and the B, or Dr. and Cr. Diaries. as 3 B, 4 B, 5 B, 6 B, 7 B, 11 B, &c.

TRADESMEN, Nos. 4, 5, 11, 13, 15, &c. and the B, or Dr. and Cr. Diaries.
MECHANICS, Nos. 17, 21, 23, and the CHEAP EDITIONS.

The POCKET EDITIONS being indiscriminately used by all.

Nearly every Edition is provided with a loose protecting Cover of Leather or Cloth to last an indefinite period, for the purpose of keeping it neat and unbroken to the year's end.

In addition to a ruled space for every day in the Year according with the arrangements described on succeeding pages, and accompanied with Notices of all remarkable events to be provided for (such as Public Holidays, Dividends due, Eclipses, &c.), they contain (with one or two exceptions) a general summary of an entire page or opening for each month, blanks for casual memoranda, and the following important Tables, &c.:COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL.

Almanack for the Year, with Tides, &c.
Tide Tables for the Out-ports
Eclipses

Duration of Moon-light

Holidays at the Bank and other Offices
Sunday Lessons

Jewish Calendar, Fasts, Festivals, &c.
Weather Table

Ready Reckoner, for Marketing, lb.,
yard, &c.

For calculation of Wages

Fairs in England-Compendium of

Life Assurance, Cost of a, at various Offices
Advertisements of Ditto

Value of an Annuity at various Ages
Government Life Annuities at ditto
Probable Duration of Life at ditto
British Weights and Measures

Foreign Weights compared with English
Foreign Money compared with English
Funds, Transfer Days, Dividends, &c.
Relative Value at various Rates
Highest and Lowest Prices, 1847 to 1851
Property and Income Tax Table
Interest Table at £5 per cent.

Ditto, at 3, 34, 4, 44, and 5 per cent.
The New Tariff or Customs' Duties
Assessed Taxes

Stamp Duties-Law and Commercial
Directions for making a Will
Brief Directions to Executors
Birth Days of the Royal Family
City Officers

Army and Navy Agents

Bankers in London

Bankers in the Country, with London
Agents

Styles and Commencement of Address to
the Nobility and Public Officers

Her Majesty's Officers of State and Principal Departments of Government House of Peers, &c.

Scotch and Irish Peers, not being Peers
of Parliament

House of Commons-Representatives
Ditto-Places Represented

Post Office Regulations

Foreign Ministers and Consuls
English ditto abroad.

SUMMARY OF THE COMMERCIAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR,

Embracing Monthly Tables of the highest and lowest prices of the following Articles of Produce, with the quantities warehoused in the Docks :

Corn and Wheat

Cotton

Coffee

Indigo

Funds; Bank Notes in Circulation and Reserve, with Bullion in both Departments.

NO.

Price and Description of the various Editions of Letts's Diaries.

OFFICE EDITIONS.

51 Fol. 8 x 12 in. 1 Day in a page, with Sunday, bound in Russia, 288.

a. d.

bound in cloth, 14 0

2 Days in a page, (or a week in 2 openings) with Sunday.

do.

do. 80

6 Days in a page, (or 2 weeks in 1 opening)

1 4to. 8 x 10

1 Day in a page, bound in Russia, 238.

do. 10 0

2 Days in a page, (a week in 2 openings) divided perpendicularly

3 Days in a page, (a week in the opening) no Sunday

3 Days in a page, for Dr. & Cr. (a week in 2 openings).

4 Days in a page (a week in the opening) with Sun. bound in paper, 48. do.
4 Days in a page, Dr. & Cr. (a week in 2 openings) no Sunday.

6 Days in a page, (1 week in the page) no Sunday

bd. in paper, 38. do.

4 0

"

6 Days in a page, Dr. &. Cr. (1 week in the opening) no Sunday

3 Days in a page, (1 week in the opening) no Sunday

do.

60

3 Days in a page, Dr. & Cr. (a week in 2 openings)

6 Days in a page, (a week in the page)

bound in paper, 38.

9

6 Days in a page, Dr. & Cr. (1 week in the opening) no Sunday
1 Day in a page, with Sunday, bound in Russia, 138.

2 Days in a page, (a week in 2 openings) with Sunday, do. 128.

3 Days in a page, with Sunday

3 Days in a page, (a week in an opening) no Sunday

3 Days in a page, Dr. & Cr. (a week in 2 openings) no Sunday
13 Days in a page (right page ruled, left unruled) no Sunday
The Clerical and Mercantile Tablet Diary, 18.

do.

60

MONTHLY OR PROFESSIONAL EDITIONS, ONE DAY TO A PAGE.

Pocket Books, in Roan Leather, with tongue and Pencil of the usual description. Detached Covers of Roan Leather, fastened with a Pencil through Loops at the edges. Detached and complete Pocket Books, made of the best Morocco Leather, with elastic Spring Bands, and calculated to endure 6 or 8 years' hard wear without injury. Those of the Morocco are the strongest.

Loose PERPETUAL Protecting Covers with Spring Lock and Duplicate Keys are made for the following Editions:RUSSIA, Folio, 218.; Quarto, 168.; Octavo, 10s. 6d. Nos. 12 to 15 E., 78. In Mock RUSSIA, Folio, 108.; Quarto, 8s. 6d. Octavo, 68. Nos. 12 to 15 E, 58. In CLOTH, Octavo, 18. 6d. ;-Do. with clasp, 28. Nos. 12 to 15 E, with clasp, ls. 6d.

DIMENSIONS AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE VARIOUS EDITIONS OF LETTS'S DIARIES.

The Clergyman's Tablet Diary, intended to hang up in the Vestry or lie upon the Table, always presenting to view the duties of the current week, with the Proper Lessons, Proper Psalms, Prayers, and an ample space for writing Notices to each day, whether it be Sunday, Saints' Day, or ordinary week day. Every leaf contains an Entire Week which being detached, may at its expiration be withdrawn and filed. Price 1s. QUARTO Do., 1s. 6d. Do. SCRIBBLING, 1s. enl. signifies Enlarged Editions.

Method of Dividing the Pages in the various Editions.

These Diaries are usually ready for Exportation in July, wanting only a portion of the Letterpress information of little value to the Foreign Purchaser. For Prices and Dimensions see previous pages.

Method of Dividing the Pages in the various Editions.

It should be borne in mind that nearly every edition is published either with Cash lines (English Money), or without; hence all orders should specify which kind

is desired.