Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the year of our Lord 1758 : .. 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.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7899.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- 1758.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall., [1757]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The last of the Poor Richard almanacs edited by Franklin, containing the proverbs of the former issues combined in one piece which was subsequently published under the titles "Father Abraham's speech" and "The way to wealth."

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1757.

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 7899).

Cited in:

Evans 7899

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9796

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 657

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