ALMANAC
A calendar, usually in pocket-book (more rarely sheet) form, augmented
with Saints’ days, fair-dates and astronomical and meteorological
data; a bestseller from the start and protected by jealously guarded
patents, the different titles, hot rivals in the 17th century, were all
finally swallowed up by Dr Francis Moore’s Vox Stellarum, familiarly
known as ‘Old Moore’s Almanack’.
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ABC’s of Book Collecting. 8th Edition
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