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The farmer's almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan, for the year of our Lord, 1797 : ... Fitted to the town of Boston, but will serve for any of the adjoining states. ... By Robert B. Thomas. [Four lines of verse].

Author/creator Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBoston : Printed by Manning & Loring, for John West, proprietor of the copy-right, and for sale at his book-store, no. 75, Cornhill, and by the other booksellers in Boston. Sold also by Cushing & Carlton, and J. Dabney, Salem; by Edmund M. Blunt, Newbury-Port; by the author, and M. Smith, Sterling; and at various other places. (Price seven dollars per groce, 75 cents per dozen, and 10 cents single.), [1796]
Description48 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorManning, William, 1767-1849, printer.
Other author/creatorLoring, James, 1770-1850, printer.
Other author/creatorWest, John, 1770-1827, bookseller.
Other author/creatorCushing, Henry, 1777-1860, bookseller.
Other author/creatorCarlton, William, 1771?-1805, bookseller.
Other author/creatorDabney, John, 1752-1819, bookseller.
Other author/creatorBlunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862, bookseller.
Other author/creatorThomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846 bookseller.
Other author/creatorSmith, Moses, 1740?-1812, bookseller.
Other author/creatorWorcester County Law Library (Worcester, Mass.), donor.
General noteAt head of title: No. V.
General noteAdvertised in the Independent chronicle, October 27, 1796.
General noteTitle vignette.
General noteTwo states noted. One has an advertisement on p. [48] for "Books printed for and sold by Robert Bailey Thomas, in Sterling." Another has an advertisement for John West's bookstore.
General noteSome copies (those with Thomas's advertisement?) have appended a [4] p. catalogue "Robert B. Thomas, has for sale at his book & stationary [sic] store, in Sterling, the following books and stationary, --to which additions are constantly making--" with colophon: Leominster: Printed by Charles Prentiss--1796. The catalogue (Evans 31295; Winans 228) may also have been distributed separately.
General noteReproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
References Evans, 31294
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 3566
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 3567
References English Short Title Catalog, W24797.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formAlmanacs.

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