The Prophetic Almanack

The Prophetic Almanack

Editor:

• Sir Willon Brachm, Kt. T. R. Humanist (1825 issue)
• Sir Willon Brachm, Bart. K. T. R. (1826 issue)

Publication credits:

• Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, For William Charlton Wright, 65, Paternoster Row, London (1825 issue)
• Published by Knight and Lacey, and C. Stocling, Paternoster-Row, London (1826 issue)

Full title and holdings (integrated for each year as a result of significant subtle changes in the full title from one year to the next):

• The Prophetic Almanack; Or, Annual Abstract of Celestial Lore: Calculated, from the AEra of Human Redemption, for the Year 1825: Being the First After Leap-Year, And the Sixth of the Reign of His Majesty George IV: Which, Besides Registering and Explaining The Periodical Phenomena of the Heavens, and Ominous Tendency of Particular Configurations of the Planets, Contains Salutary Precepts and Comments on the same; with Prognostications of the Weather throughout the whole Year: Including Also New Tables of Memorable Events, And an Improved Tide-Table; A Batch of Recreations in Astronomy for the Year; With all the Useful Tables and Contents of the Common Almanacks; and A Poetic Vagary on the Way of the World: To all which is prefixed A Commentary On Ezekiel’s Lamentation Over Tyre: The whole being calculated to prepare Mankind for The Coming of Christ’s Kingdom upon Earth. [48 pp]
• The Prophetic Almanack; Or, Annual Abstract of Celestial Lore: Calculated, from the Era of Human Redemption, for the Year 1826: Being the Second After Leap-Year, And the Seventh of the Reign of His Majesty George IV.; Which, Besides Registering and Explaining The Periodical Phenomena of the Heavens and Ominous Tendency of Particular Configurations of the Planets, Contains Salutary Precepts, and Comments on the same; with Prognostications of the Weather throughout the whole Year. Including Also New Tables of Memorable Events, And an Improved Tide-Table; With all the Useful Tables and Contents of the Common Almanacks; and A Poetical Pasquinade, Entitled, Dry Rubs For Divers Delinquents. To all which is prefixed, A Look at Ezekiel’s Vision of the Holy Waters, Which Brings to View A Spiritual Spa for Gangrene Souls. [48 pp]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• 1825 and 1826 issues part of a vol. in half-leather rear board (worn at outer corners) with paper-covered board (moderately edgeworn and superficially scuffed). Front board and outer spine missing. Bound together with a very incomplete partial spare copy of the 1834 edition of the Prophetic Messenger, q. v. below, comprising the hand-coloured frontis. and pp. 27-84 only of that issue