Poor Job, 1754. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1754. : ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. / By Job Shepherd, philom. ; [Two lines of verse].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepherd, Job.

Franklin, James, 1732?-1762.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7117.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Rhode Island -- 1754.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Newport [R.I.]: : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house., [1753]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. volume 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 26, 1753.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 7117).

Cited in:

Evans 7117

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 129

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12803

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