Poor Robin, 1745
Subtitle: An almanack according both to the old and new fashion. Or, an ephemeris both in jest and earnest, of the latest edition, wherein the reader may observe (especially if he use a pair of understanding spectacles) many useful and very remarkable things, worthy the observation not of himself only, but also of all attentive by-standers. Containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. the good, old, true, plain, honest English account, together with the new-fangled, minute-splitting (or rather month-splitting) whimsey-heads, paper-scull'd, slender-witted, Pretendrical, Perkinical, Popish account; embellished with a team of saints and sinners ... Being the first after bissextile, or leap-year
By: Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt-Island; a well-wisher to the mathematicks ...
Contributors: R., P.; Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: English Almanacs; Specimens; Satire; Ephemerides; Astrology; Eclipses; Historical Chronology
Other titles: Almanack according to both the old and new fashion.; Ephemeris both in jest and in earnest.
Notes: 8vo: A-C⁸.

Single issue of an almanac which ran 1662(or 4)-1775(or 6) (BUCoP, BM, Capp disagree); continued as Old Poor Robin 1776-1826. -- Printed in red & black. -- Two pence tax stamp on t-p. -- Combines ribald satire on almanacs with useful information usual to them (e.g., tables of kings, interest, assize of bread); has a serious & a facetious chronology, monthly observations in verse. "To any reader... (p.[2]) subscribed: P.R.; "The proice of our book [six-pence]: p.[2]. C1r is special t-p: Poor Robin, 1745. A prognostication... London: Printed by T. Parker...; this 2d part includes tables of tides, expense, names of shires with number of MPs, hundreds, market-towns, etc.; "Upon the eclipses of the year 1745."

ESTC T17627