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Poor Robin. 1725. An almanack after the old and new fashion [electronic resource] : Wherein the reader (if duly qualified) may find many remarkable things, which were not in the former impressions. Being the first after bissextile or leap-year. Containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. The good old fashioned English honest protestant account; and the foreign maggoty jacobite account: with the saints in one and such as they have in stead of saints in the other. Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt Island, a well-wisher to the mathematicks.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Astrology--Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Genre:
Almanacs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource ([48]p. )
Other Title:
Poor Robin. 1725. An almanack after the old and new fashion
Place of Publication:
London : Printed by W. Bowyer for the Company of Stationers, 1725.
Notes:
Titlepage and main text in red and black.
Sig. C comprises 'Poor Robin, 1725 a prognostication ..' with an additional titlepage, bearing the imprint of G. Parker.
Bowyer printed only sig. A.
Bowyer's records show 100 fine-paper copies printed.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1078
English Short Title Catalog, T17607.
OCLC:
508484064

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