The farmer's almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan, for the year of our Lord, 1820... : Fitted to the town of Boston, but will answer for the adjoining states. .. / By Robert B. Thomas. ; [Four lines of verse from Grahame].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846.

Contributor:

Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 47945.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1820.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

Physical Description:

48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by J.H.A. Frost, for West, Richardson & Lord, proprietors of the copy right; and for sale at their bookstore, no. 75, Cornhill, and by most other booksellers in Boston, Salem, Newburyport, &c. by the author, in West-Boylston, and other booksellers and traders in N. England. (Price $9 per gross, 87 1/2 cents per dozen, and 12 1/2 cents single.), [1819]

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Notes:

At head of title: Number XXVIII.

The title vignette, which first appeared in the 1819 issue and is a freshly engraved version of that used in previous issues, is signed: B. [i.e., Abel Bowen]. Cf. Sinclair Hamilton, Early American book illustrators and wood engravers (1958), p. 79.

Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Dec. 29, 1819.

Advertisement for the Boston book and stationery store of West, Richardson & Lord, p. [48].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 47945).

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