Author: Capp, Bernard
Title: Astrology and the Popular Press. English Almanacs 1500-1800
Description: London: Faber and Faber, 1979 (1st edition); 8vo, hard cover, 452 pp., appendices, bibliogr., abbrev., notes, index, dustjacket. Name prev. owner on f.e.p. Spine d.j. slightly tanned by sun. ¶ The alamanac has a long history and was widely read in Tudor England. It covered topics like agriculture, sex, dress, cleanliness, the weather, witchcraft and even the sale of wives. Furthermore it made dramatic astrological prophecies about the possibillity of plague, war or famine in the comming year. This fascinating book is the first to study its history in depth.

Keywords: astrologie