Simmonite’s Meteorologist

Simmonite’s Meteorologist

Editor:

• Simmonite, W. J., A. M. Ph. Mat. (1844 ed.)
• Ashphe, Dr. Smith (1852 ed.)
• [Ashphe, Dr. Smith, ed.] (implicitly apparent) (1855-6 eds.)
• Simmonite, W. J., Ph. D., A. M., &c. (1858 ed.)
• Simmonite, W. J., M. D. Ph. D. (1861-2 eds.)

Publication credits:

• Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers’-Hall Court, London (1844 ed.)
• Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., Stationers’-Hall Court, London (1852-1862 eds.)

Full title, holdings and binding format and presentation notes (integrated under a single listing for each year as a result of the title changing often and the year details being integrated in them):

• Catastrophe Mundi, the Effects of the Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, For 200 Years to come. The Meteorologist and Catastrophe Mundi; or, the World’s Fate for 1844. Containing an Almanack: Also an Aspectarian of the Planets and Asteroids; Astrologer’s Guide; Predictions of Epidemic Diseases of 1844 – Sixth Yearly Edition. Cloth (split down both hinges, torn towards top of spine, and worn at outer corners of boards). [3] + [pp. 4-64]
• Dr. Simmonite’s Meteorologist, and Daily Account of the Weather: Predictions of Epidemic Diseases, the World’s Fate in 1852, and a complete Almanack for 1852: Containing Also, An Astronomical Aspectarian, Excellent Guides for Farmers, Gardeners, Astronomers, and Botanic Practitioners. By Doctor Ashphe, M. R. C. S. – Fourteenth Yearly Edition. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards. [1 leaf] + [2] + [pp. iii-x] + [pp. 11-48] + [1 page of advertisements]
• Dr. Simmonite’s Meteorologist, and Daily Account of the Weather: Predictions of Epidemic Diseases, the World’s Fate This Year, and a complete Almanack for the Eventful 1855: Containing Also, An Astronomical Aspectarian, Excellent Guides for Farmers, Gardeners, Astronomers, and Botanic Practitioners – Seventeenth Yearly Edition. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards. [Original paper front cover featuring 1 page of advertisements] + [2] + [pp. 3-48] + [original paper rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• Dr. Simmonite’s Meteorologist, and Daily Account of the Weather: Predictions of Epidemic Diseases, the World’s Fate This Year, and a complete Almanack for the eventful 1856: Containing Also, An Astronomical Aspectarian, Excellent Guides for Farmers, Gardeners, Astronomers, and Botanic Practitioners – Eighteenth Yearly Edition. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards. [Original paper front cover featuring 1 page of advertisements] + 60 + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• Simmonite’s Astronomical Ephemeris and Meteorological Almanack, with Planetary Phenomena [for 1858]. The whole carefully computer for Mean Noon in the Latitude and Meridian of Greenwich. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards. [Original paper front cover] + 32 + [original paper rear cover]
• Simmonite’s Meteorologist and Daily Account of the Weather, Predictions of Epidemic Diseases, the World’s Fate This Year, and a Complete Almanack for 1861, Containing Also, An Astronomical Aspectarian, Excellent Guides for Farmers, Gardeners, Astronomers, and Botanic Practitioners – Twenty-Third Yearly Edition. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards (worn at outer corners of boards). [4] + [pp. 5-64]
• Dr. Simmonite’s Meteorologist, and Daily Account of the Weather, Predictions of Epidemic Diseases, the World’s Fate This Year, and a Complete Almanack, for 1862; Containing Also, An Astronomical Aspectarian, Excellent Guides for Farmers, Gardeners, Astronomers, and Botanic Practitioners – Twenty-Fourth Yearly Edition. Part of a half-leather volume with paper-covered boards (leather scuffed at extremities of spine and outer corners of boards). [4] + [pp. 5-64]

Bibliographical note:

• It may seem puzzling that Simmonite farmed out the editing of his almanac to another writer for some years before returning to editing it personally later, but the evidence clearly demonstrates this to have been the case. In the absence of further documentation, we can only speculate as to the causes. But perhaps he was simply too busy with other work for a number of years and yet wished for his almanac to continue in print regardless, and had confidence in the abilities of Dr. Smith Ashphe as a substitute writer.