Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord, 1749 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern colonies / By Richard Saunders, philom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Richard.

Grew, Theophilus, -1759.

Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1748]

Notes:

At head of title: Note, this almanack us'd to contain but 24 pages, and now has 36; yet the price is very little advanc'd.

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

Probably calculated by Theophilus Grew. An advertisement for his school of mathematics appears on p. [30].

Miller notes two impressions, and two states of the first impression.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1748.

Signatures: [A]4 B2 C4 D2 E4 F2.

Local Notes:

Curtis copy is first impression, middle colonies "state."

Cited in:

Evans 6139

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9705

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 441

OCLC:

187487880