Poor Robin. 1730
Subtitle: a new almanack after the old and new fashion : wherein they that can read may see how many months there are in the year, and what is fit to be eat and drank in each month; also the eclipses and signs both new and old : being the second after bissextile or leap-year : containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. the good, old English honost Protestant account; and their saint's days, &c. Also the new strange foreign account, with their saints, whether canonized at Cheapside, Tyburn, or elswhere
By: written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt Island, a well-wisher to the mathematicks
Publisher: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Company Stationers
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Early works to 1800; Humor; Astrology; Eclipses; English Satire; Advertising; Medicine
Other titles: New almanack after the old and new fashion; Prognostication for the year of or Lord God 1730
Notes: "Julii 21, 1729. Imprimatur, E.C."

In two parts, the calendar, and A prognostication.

Single issue of an almanac which ran 1662-1776; continued as Old Poor Robin 1776-1826. Combines ribald satire on almanacs with useful information usual to them. Originally conceived and written (under the name Poor Robin) by William Winstanley in 1662, and subsequently taken over by the Stationer's Company. See William Burns's article on Winstanley in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Address to the reader, page [2], signed P.R.

Probably published and available in late 1729.

Signatures: A-C⁸.

The title-page and calendar, pages [1]-[32] (sig. A-B), printed in red and black.

Part 2 has special t.p.: Poor Robin, 1730. A prognosticaion for the year of or Lord God 1730. Wherein you have an account of all the eclipses, with the twelve signs ... calculated to the meridian of all honost capacities ... London, Printed by G. Parker for the Company of Stationers, 1730.

Advertisements, page [48].

English short title catalogue T17632

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3580

Bound as no. 4 in v. 2 of a collection of of 17th- and 18th-century almanacs.

Bound in 18th-cent. sheep, very worn; gold rules on spine.