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Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of our Lord God 1767.
Being the Third after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorn'd with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy. With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads, and Tables for many necessary Uses. Compiled for his Country's Benefit by Cardanus Rider.
Publisher: London: by H. Woodfall, for the Company of Stationers, 1767
Stock code: 48374
Price: £500 Currency Conversion
Rider's British Merlin was a very popular almanac, first published in 1656 and continuing annually until the nineteenth century. Cardanus Rider is often said, though probably wrongly, to be the pseudonym of the medical practitioner and astrologer Richard Saunders (1613-1675).
Duodecimo (132 × 77 mm). Contemporary red morocco, gilt panel spine with saltire design, covers tooled in gilt all over to a cottage-roof design, Dutch floral gilt endpapers with pockets. Text interleaved, small red excise stamp to title. Some contemporary notes in ink and pencil to blank endleaves. Extremities rubbed, a very good copy.
