Rider's British Merlin : for the year of our Lord God 1752, being the 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.

R. Nutt, for the Company of Stationers., 1752 48 unnumbered printed pages, A12-B12. Printed in red and black, some interleaved with blanks. Ink marginalia on preliminary and final blanks, red ink duty stamp on title page (historical inking-over in cursive script on some of the printed titling). Empty marble paper-lined pocket at rear (some wear). A few minor ink spots and mild marks. 8 x 12 cm. Contemporary olive goatskin wallet-style binding. Beautifully patinated with unadorned original vernacular brass clasp (very minor damage). Provenance: William Johns. Born in Kilkhampton, Cornwall (on the border of Devon and Cornwall), England on 6 Sep 1723 to Thomas JOHNS and Elizabeth Stanbury. William Johns married Elizabeth Trick and had 3 children. Rider's British Merlin was one of the first published almanacs, first printed in the mid-17th-century. Cardanus Rider, a pseudonym for astrologer Richard Saunders, began publishing his calendar records, weather patterns, and astronomical data. A compendium of month by month data providing planting, weather predictions and health information: the health advice for November -- "The best Physick this Month, is good Exercise, warm Clothes, and wholesome diet: But if any Distemper afflick you, finish your Physick this month, and so rest 'till March." Remaining information presents eclipses, List of Kings, History up to the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle (1748), Fixed Fairs in England and Wales & Moveable Feasts, miles between cities. This periodical was published consistently until the mid-19th-century, including this 1752 issue. WorldCat locates 7 UK institutional holdings.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.