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Folger call number: 270310 item 2
Folger holdings ID: 501962
Accession Number: 270310
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Item information about Folger 270310 item 2
Bound second in a volume with fifteen other alamancs Purchase made possible by The K. Frank and Joycelyn C. Austen Acquisitions Endowment From dealer's description: "Almanacs were traditionally printed and sold in the months of October, November, and December preceding the salient year, and it was customary for the Stationers' Company to bind up selections of unsold copies, tool the covers with the cipher of the reigning monarch, and sell them as yearbooks in January, February, and March. The present volume contains sixteen almanacs, including, Dove, Wing, Pond, Tanner, and other standards, as well as Poor Robin, the infamous quasi-parodic almanac. A number of the almanacs are illustrated with anthropomorphized eclipses, moon phases, and the obligatory Homo sigorum, or Zodiac man. The prime directive of the early English almanac is astronomical: it is a vade mecum to the stars and planets and how to interpret them as both stellar objects and as astrological heralds. As such most almanacs contain significant information on eclipses, comets, and phases of the moon, along with the worldwide sublunary effects of it all, from medical to climatic to sociopolitical. The present work has an excellent provenance: it was once in the collection of Colonel William Allen Potter, a collector of rare deeds, almanacs, prognostications, and other documents, and a past president of the Thoroton Society, Nottinghamshire's distinguished antiquarian league. A good deal of his inventory found its way to Nottingham University, and the moiety was dispersed at Bonham's 25 June 2003. A very good copy of a rare Sammelband of English almanacs, bound in contemporary olive morocco and tooled with a derivative of Queen Anne's cipher. Octavo, 162 x 102 x 56 mm (binding), 156 x 98 x 50 mm (text block). Bound in olive morocco tooled on corners of boards and on spine compartments with a derivative of a cipher of Queen Anne.' AEG, marbled ends. Vellum strips separate the almanacks. Minor wear to extremities, some vellum separators broken at ends, gilding worn. Provenance: Ex libris of William Allen Potter to upper pastedown; ex libris of E. F. Bosanquet to verso of first free end; mid 20th-century printed catalogue clipping tipped to recto of second free end; modern ink manuscript title list to same Ordered from WS Cotter Rare Books & Restoration, D 9173, 2018-01-29, Email quote