Query 1. Is this Broad Almanack the original of the present Stationers' Almanack?
2. When was this Broad Almanack first issued?
3. When were sheet almanacks, printed on one side of a sheet, first published?
B. H. C.
P.S.—The books enumerated in this MS., under the other printers' names, are some of them very curious, and others almost unknown at the present time.
Minor Queries.
John Bunyan.—The following advertisement is copied from the Mercurius Reformatus of June 11, 1690, vol. ii. No. 27.:
"Mr. John Bunyan, Author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and many other excellent Books, that have found great Acceptance, hath left behind him Ten Manuscripts prepared by himself for the Press before his Death: His Widow is desired to print them (with some other of his Works, which have been already printed, but are at present not to be had), which will make together a Book of 10s. in sheets, in Fol. All persons who desire so great and good a Work should be performed with speed, are desired to send in 5s. for their first Payment to Dorman Newman, at the King's Arms in the Poultrey, London: Who is empower'd to give Receipts for the same."
Can any of your readers say whether such a publication as that which is here proposed ever took place: that is, a publication of "ten manuscripts," of which none had been previously printed?