Poor Robin 1751. 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 twosold calendar. viz. The good, old, true, plain, honest English account, together with the new-fangled, minute-splitting (or rather month-splitting) whimsey-heads, paper-seull'd, slender-witted, pretendrical, perkinical, popish account; embellished with a team of saints and sinners, composed of 365 links, at least twelve months long. Being the third after bissextile or leap-year. Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt-Island, a well-wisher to the mathematicks

Poor Robin 1751. 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 twosold calendar. viz. The good, old, true, plain, honest English account, together with the new-fangled, minute-splitting (or rather month-splitting) whimsey-heads, paper-seull'd, slender-witted, pretendrical, perkinical, popish account; embellished with a team of saints and sinners, composed of 365 links, at least twelve months long. Being the third after bissextile or leap-year. Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt-Island, a well-wisher to the mathematicks.

Author/creator	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1751.
Description	48 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰.
Supplemental Content	Full text online
Subject(s)	Astrology--Early works to 1800.

General note	Titlepage and main text in red and black.
General note	Sig. C comprises 'Poor Robin, 1751. A prognostication ..' with an additional titlepage, bearing the imprint of T. Parker.
General note	Sig. A was printed by William Bowyer.
General note	Reproduction of original from British Library.
References	Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3641
References	English Short Title Catalog, T17633.
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/form	Almanacs.

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