Accession number
PML 142166.8
Published
London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by R. Horsfield, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street, [1795]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Poor Robin was the pseudonym of William Winstanley, the original author of Poor Robin's almanac; publication continued long after his death, with the name of the almanac changing to Old Poor Robin after 1777. Cf. DNB.
Below imprint: Price only eleven 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.
Preface dated: Near Saffron-Walden, March 29th, 1794.
With an additional title page to the second part: Poor Robin, 1795. Part the second.
Calendar and t.p. printed in red and black.
Tax stamp on t.p.
Below imprint: Price only eleven 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.
Preface dated: Near Saffron-Walden, March 29th, 1794.
With an additional title page to the second part: Poor Robin, 1795. Part the second.
Calendar and t.p. printed in red and black.
Tax stamp on t.p.
Description
48 p. ; 17 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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