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The farmer's almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan, for the year of our Lord, 1799 : ... 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 the booksellers in Salem, Newburyport, &c. by the author at Sterling, and at various other places. (Price 7 1/2 dollars per gross, 75 cents per dozen, and 10 cents single.), [1798]
Description48 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 34654. ^A478749
General noteAt head of title: No. VII.
General noteAdvertised in the Massachusetts Mercury, October 30, 1798.
General noteParentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
General noteTwo states noted by the Boston Public Library. In one, p. [32-34] contain "Directions for preventing calamities by fire"; in the other, p. [32-34] contain poems and anecdotes. The first collates: A-B⁶ C⁴ D² E⁴ F²; the second: A-H⁴⁻² (gathering G missigned E).
General noteTitle vignette.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [48].
References Evans 34654
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 3597
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 34654).
Genre/formAlmanacs Massachusetts 1799.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.

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