Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1782...
London.
Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by J. Wilkie, 1782.
60pp. Title and calendar printed in red and black. Calendar interleaved. ESTC T143859.
[Bound with:] The court and city register; or, Gentleman's Complete annual calendar, For the Year 1782... London. Printed for J. Jolliffe et al., [1782]. [4], 272pp. ESTC N27872.
12mo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional early manuscript notes to blank interstitial leaves of first mentioned work. Margins of second mentioned work shaved, with occasional loss of text and sense.
[Bound with:] The court and city register; or, Gentleman's Complete annual calendar, For the Year 1782... London. Printed for J. Jolliffe et al., [1782]. [4], 272pp. ESTC N27872.
12mo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional early manuscript notes to blank interstitial leaves of first mentioned work. Margins of second mentioned work shaved, with occasional loss of text and sense.
A sumptuously bound example of a staple nineteenth-century almanac.
Rider's Merlin is one of the most well-known of the English almanacs, important documents readily purchased and frequently referred to, but like diaries often discarded. Cardanus Rider is now believed to have been the pseudonym of physician and astronomer Richard Saunders (1613-1675). He was a member of the circle of William Lilly, whose own Merlin was first published in 1644; Rider's British Merlin was first published in in 1653, and was printed annually into the nineteenth century.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 33843
Rider's Merlin is one of the most well-known of the English almanacs, important documents readily purchased and frequently referred to, but like diaries often discarded. Cardanus Rider is now believed to have been the pseudonym of physician and astronomer Richard Saunders (1613-1675). He was a member of the circle of William Lilly, whose own Merlin was first published in 1644; Rider's British Merlin was first published in in 1653, and was printed annually into the nineteenth century.
