Poor Robin. 1734
Subtitle: a new almanack after the good old fashion : wherein, the reader (for books are chiefly intended for people that can read) may find many very useful things, as when the moon is at full or change, or when between both, with choice directions for the roads, and valuable receipts the like not in any other : being the second after bissextile or leap-year : containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. the true-hearted, Protestant English old account; and the superstitious Romish new account ...
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: 1733
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 good old fashion; Prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1734
Notes: 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.

"Bowyer printed only sig. A."--ESTC.

Probably published and available in late 1733.

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, 1734. A prognostication for the year of our Lord God 1734 wherein you have an account of all the two eclipses of the sun, and how there is never a one to be seen ... also the year divided into four quarters, as the butchers do their mutton, with a figure of twelve houses, for one of them which with good husbandry may serve for all the rest ... calculated for all latitudes and longitudes, but more particularly adapted to the capacities of all our merry readers; and amongst them especially to those who buy the almanack and pay for it. ... London, Printed by G. Parker for the Company of Stationers, 1734.

Advertisements, pages [47]-[48].

English short title catalogue T17616

Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 1981

Last leaf (C8) damaged, with loss of about 4 words of text on each page.

Bound as no. 7 in v. 2 of a collection of of 17th- and 18th-century almanacs.

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