The American country almanack, for the year of Christian account, 1750. ... Calculated from Caroline tables, according to art, and fitted for the province of Pennsylvania, but may without sensible error serve all the provinces adjacent. By Thomas More, philodespot. [Four lines in verse]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

More, Thomas, philodespot

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[24]p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office near the market, [1749]

Notes:

"Thomas More" is a pseudonym.

This may have been printed either by Franklin and Hall or by James Parker at New York. The Philadelphia and New York More almanacs for 1750 are printed from the same setting of type, differing only in the place names in title, the imprints, the contents of the court days, and the inclusion of an interest table on p. [22] of the Philadelphia issue.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Oct. 27, 1749.

Local Notes:

Library copy: 2cop?

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Bristol B1423; Shipton & Mooney 40506; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1140; Drake, M. Almanacs, 9711; Miller, C.W. Franklin, 477