Poor Will's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1781 ...

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Andrews, William.

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16699.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1781.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., [1780]

Notes:

Attributed by Evans to William Andrews, the pseudonym which appeared on the title page of the first three issues.

All the almanacs published in Pennsylvania for 1781 except the American almanac contain the same calculations and have most of the same astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and are clearly the work of the same author. In some the calculations for the sun are adjusted slightly for spring and autumn. The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its author is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster) by David Rittenhouse. It differs from the others only in having fewer notes and columns of calculations, as is usual with German-American almanacs.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16699).

Cited in:

Evans 16699

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10117

OCLC:

55820792