Scarce Antique Prophecies Of Mother Shipton, Robert Nixon & Martha The Gipsy Book 1866
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A Scarce Edition Of This Book For 1866 - Prophecies Of Mother Shipton, Robert Nixon And Martha The Gipsy. There Is One Of These Books Referenced In The British Library.
Robert Nixon, also known as "the Cheshire Prophet" was born in the late fifteenth century. Apart from typically cryptic utterances which were later said to have foretold events as diverse as the invention of the cigarette and the result of the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nixon was famously said to have predicted his own death by starvation, which apparently took place in the court of King Richard the third, when Nixon was locked in a cupboard - either for his own protection or because he irritated his custodians enormously (accounts vary) - and the person who was entrusted with his care was called away and forgot him.
Appended to this is a short collection of prophecies by Mother Shipton, (Ursula Southill: c. 1488 – 1561) perhaps the most famous of English soothsayers, who seems to have been as renowned for her unfortunate visage as she was as a prophetess. She has sometimes been described as a witch and is associated with folklore involving the origin of the Rollright Stones of Oxfordshire, reportedly a king and his men transformed to stone after failing her test. The first known edition of her prophecies was printed in 1641, eighty years after her reported death.
The collection is undated, but the British Library appear to have acquired their copy circa 1866 so it is probably safe to say it dates from that year or a little earlier.
Condition is good, commensurate with age and use. Structurally sound. Some age related wear to be expected.
Measures 14cm x 10cm x 3cm
Weighs 244.20 grams