Merlinus liberatus
Subtitle: an almanack for the year of our redemption 1728 : being leap-year, and from the Creation, according to the best of prophane history, 5677, and from the Protestants deliverance by K. William, from Popery, and arbitrary government 40 years : in which is contain'd the English and foreign accounts, the moon's sign every day in the year, for the use of the countrymen, the new moons, full mons, and quarters, the rising and setting of the sun and moon ... daily motions of the planets, and their aspects, beginnings and endings of terms, high-water at London-Bridge, and most other ports in England, astrological observations, and other things fit for such a work : together with The Protestant remembrancer continued: or, A brief dissertation on the religion of the Church of Rome : calculated and referr'd to the meridian of London ...
By: by John Partridge
Publisher: Printed by R. Phillips, for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1727
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Early works to 1800; Astrology; Advertising; Medicine
Other titles: Almanack for the year of our redemption 1728; Partridge, 1728
Notes: John Partridge began his annual almanac in 1681 under the title Mercurius Coelestis. In 1683 it changed to Mercurius Redivivus. Finally, from 1690 he opted for Merlinus Liberatus. See Patrick Curry's article on Partridge for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The almanac continued to be issued by the Stationer's Company after Partridge's death.

Probably published and available by the end of 1727.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-C⁸.

The title-page and calendar, pages [1]-[24] (sig. A-B), printed in red and black.

Advertisements, pages [44]-[48].

English short title catalogue T17024

Tax stamp on t.p.

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

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