Poor Richard, 1736. An almanack for the year of Christ 1736 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. / By Richard Saunders, philom.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Saunders, Richard.

Grew, Theophilus, -1759.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3903.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1736.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new printing-office near the market., [1735]

Notes:

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

An advertisement by Theophilus Grew for his school of mathematics appears on p. [24]. Similar advertisements are found in the issues for 1737 and 1743-1751. During this period Grew, the calculator of other almanacs, was probably the calculator of Poor Richard.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 27/Dec. 4, 1735.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3903).

Cited in:

Evans 3903

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 524

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9587

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 103

OCLC:

55818584