Old poor Robin. An almanack, composed (according to the modern mode of composition) on a variety of subjects, both ancient and modern; and, for the reader's farther entertainment, part in prose, part in verse; part narrative, part contemplative; part serious, part comick; for the entertainment and improvement of the human mind, and adapted to the mean[est] capacity. Being a new improved edition of a very old ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord, 1798. Being the one hundred and thirty-sixth edition, the second after bissextile, or leap year, and the forty-sixth year of the new stile in Great-Britain. Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt-Island, and well wisher to the mathematicks
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- Old poor Robin. An almanack, composed (according to the modern mode of composition) on a variety of subjects, both ancient and modern; and, for the reader's farther entertainment, part in prose, part in verse; part narrative, part contemplative; part serious, part comick; for the entertainment and improvement of the human mind, and adapted to the mean[est] capacity. Being a new improved edition of a very old ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord, 1798. Being the one hundred and thirty-sixth edition, the second after bissextile, or leap year, and the forty-sixth year of the new stile in Great-Britain. Written by Poor Robin, knight of the Burnt-Island, and well wisher to the mathematicks
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London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by Robert Horsfield and George Greenhill, at their Hall, in Ludgate-street. Price only sixteen pence for paper, printing, the expence of setting the press, the duty for stamps, and the immense trouble of composition; as he gives the stitching gratis, [1798]
- Publication year
- 1798
- ESTC No.
- T186156
- Grub Street ID
- 222319
- Description
- 48p. ; 8°.
- Note
- Titlepage and main text in red and black.