Poor Robin, 1667. : An almanack after a new fashion. Wherein the reader may see (if he be not blind) many remarkable things worthy of observation. Being the third after bissextil [sic] or leap-year. Containing a two-fold kalender viz the Julian or English; and the round-head or fanaticks: with their several saints daies, and observations upon every month. In a more exact method then heretofore. / Written by Poor Robin knight of the burnt island, a well-willer to the mathematicks. Calculated for the meridian of Saffron-Walden, where the May-pole is elevated (with a plumm cake on the top of it) 5 yards 3/4 above the market-cross.
- Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
- Date:
- [1667]
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London : printed for the Company of Stationers, [1667]
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48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8vo (16 cm)
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References note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), A2186.
ESTC R33084
Notes
Poor Robin = William Winstanley.
Title page and calendar in red and black.
Signatures: A-C⁸; quire B unsigned.
Copy 1. Imperfect: lacks leaves A3-4; A5 and A6 torn with loss at inner margin.
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Vol. 3
Location Status Access Closed storesEPB/A/33608.v3Vol. 3
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