Details

Fingerprint:

m-nd s.of l-s, Ecwo (C) 1694 (A)

Subjects:

Almanacs, English -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Almanacs, English.

Place of Publication:

England London.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁸.
Without pagination.
Title within border of type ornaments; type ornament head-piece.
Woodcut title vignette and illustration.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries at auction by Sotheby's, 26 October 2016, lot 10. Formerly owned by Dr. Howard and Mrs. Linda Knohl, with their illustrated bookplate ("FOX POINTE COLLECTION LIBRARY OF Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl") on front free endpaper.
Furness copy has bookplate ("E LIBRIS HENRICI CVNLIFFE ARMIGERI") of Henry Cunliffe on front pastedown.
Furness copy has photoreproduction of bookseller's typescript description of this copy with ms. notes laid in.
Furness copy bound in full 19th-century calf; boards tooled in blind with gold corner rosettes; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; author's name and imprint place and date stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.
Furness copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with damage to fore-edge title border and occasional damage to headline.

Penn Provenance:

Knohl, Howard (bookplate) (Furness copy)
Knohl, Linda (bookplate) (Furness copy)
Cunliffe, Henry, 1826-1894 (bookplate) (Furness copy)

Penn Chronology:

1694

Cited in:

ESTC R505895
Wing, D.G. Gallery of ghosts E3243A

Contributor:

Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller)
Chiswell, Richard, bookseller.
Smith, Samuel, active 1681-1703, bookseller.
Walford, Benjamin, -approximately 1710, bookseller.
Conyers, George, -1739 or 1740, bookseller.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

132733120

Web link:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page