Father Abraham's almanac, (on an entire new plan.) For the year of our Lord, 1760 ... To which is added, beautifully engrav'd on a large copper-plate, a fine picture of the Right Honorable William Pitt ... By Abraham Weatherwise, gent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jerman, John, 1684-1769

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[50]p., [1]leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by W. Dunlap, at the newest-printing-office, on the south side of the Jersey-market, [1759]

Notes:

Calculated by John Jerman. The calendar pages are identical in content and typography with those in his American almanac for 1760, also published by Dunlap. They also appear in the Pennsylvania almanac for 1760, issued by Dunlap under the pseudonym of Thomas Thomas.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1759.

The frontispiece is signed: J.T. (James Turner). The engraved portrait of William Pitt is signed: Basire, sculp. (James Basire).

"Books and stationary, just imported from London, and to be sold by the printer hereof."--[8] p. at end.

Local Notes:

Library copy: -last leaf; -ill.; -port; -plate

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 8516; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1652; Drake, M. Almanacs, 9810