Poor Richard, 1736. An almanack for the year of Christ 1736 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina

Name:

Saunders, Richard; Grew, Theophilus, -1759

Date:

1735

Language:

English

Publisher:

Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new printing-office near the market

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Almanacs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 16 cm (8vo)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

"Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.; An advertisement by Theophilus Grew for his school of mathematics appears on p. [24]. Similar advertisements are found in the issues for 1737 and 1743-1751. During this period Grew, the calculator of other almanacs, was probably the calculator of Poor Richard.; Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 27/Dec. 4, 1735.; Signatures: [A-C]4.; The Anatomy is the only illustration.; Imperfect: p.[23]-[24] wanting.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Curtis Collection, 94

Collection:

Curtis Collection of Franklin Imprints (University of Pennsylvania)