Old Poor Robin. 1777. An almanack after the old; yet nevertheless as agreeable as head and hands can make it to the newest new fashion, &c. Or, A new edition of an old almanack: wherein thou, o reader, (if that thou canst but read) art sure to find abundance and plenty of matters most dainty; well worthy of thy utmost attention, careful observation, and highest approbation. Containing a two-fold calendar; viz. The good, new, true, downright, upright, honest and punctual English account; and also the whimsey-headed, sap-scull'd, fantastical account of sorry saints, and sad sinners, even from the beginning of this year, unto the latter end of the same. Written by old honest Poor Robin, a worthy knight of the Burnt-Island; and an hearty well-wisher to the mathematics. And the first after Leap-Year; also the twenty-fifth of the new-style

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  • Old Poor Robin. 1777. An almanack after the old; yet nevertheless as agreeable as head and hands can make it to the newest new fashion, &c. Or, A new edition of an old almanack: wherein thou, o reader, (if that thou canst but read) art sure to find abundance and plenty of matters most dainty; well worthy of thy utmost attention, careful observation, and highest approbation. Containing a two-fold calendar; viz. The good, new, true, downright, upright, honest and punctual English account; and also the whimsey-headed, sap-scull'd, fantastical account of sorry saints, and sad sinners, even from the beginning of this year, unto the latter end of the same. Written by old honest Poor Robin, a worthy knight of the Burnt-Island; and an hearty well-wisher to the mathematics. And the first after Leap-Year; also the twenty-fifth of the new-style
  • Poor Robin; New edition of an old almanack
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Imprint
London : printed for the Company of Stationers and sold by George Hawkins, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street, [1777] Being the one hundred and fifteenth edition, ..; ..
Added name
Hawkins, George, -1780, printer.
Publication year
1777
ESTC No.
T17659
Grub Street ID
213614
Description
[48] p. ; 8°.
Note
Titlepage and main text in red and black

Sig. C comprises 'Poor old Sir Robin, M DCC LXXVII. The second part, containing an everlasting prognostication ..' with an additional titlepage

Brackets in title

Below imprint in square brackets: Price eight pence, stitched

Sig. A may have been printed by William Bowyer and John Nichols

Signatures: A-C]8.