Merlinus liberatus: . being an almanack for the year of our redemption, 1752. Being bissextile, or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5701. And the 60th of our deliverance by K. William from popery, and arbitrary government. But the 56th from the horrid, popish, high-church, Jaconite plot. Wherein is contain'd all things fitting and useful for such a work, as an ephemeris of the daily motion of the planets, with their various configurations, ... Illustrated with tables of the tides, ... To which is prefix'd the Protestant remembrancer, being an account of the wicked, horrid, popish plota against the protestants. Calculated for the meridian of London, whose longitude is 24 degrees 20 minutes latitude is 51 degrees 32 minutes. By John Partridge.
John Partridge (1644-1715)
Category
Books
Date
1752
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3124520
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48]p. . 8vo.. Interleaved with blanks throughout. Provenance: Leaf of manuscript detailing the marriage of John Tyton & Mary Chapman on "22d. Jany 1749. O:S. at St. Giles Cripplegate by Dr. Nicholls." and lists the births and deaths to 2nd March 1822. Their daughter Anne (1755-1810) married a "John Blakiston clk. H.O. Little Basford Co: Bedford". manuscript on endpaper verso in a nineteenth-century hand: Blakiston. Black ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: Eighteenth-century red goat over boards, gilt tooling and rectangular lozenges on spine and covers, gilt edges, two pairs of circular metal bosses on covers with fore-edge metal holes which hold a metal stylus/dry-point [book shoe]. Stylus for writing on bound in board leaves treated with chalk?.
Makers and roles
John Partridge (1644-1715)