Poor Job, 1752. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1752 : ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Four lines of verse].
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1751] |
| Description | 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Franklin, James, 1732?-1762, author. |
| Other author/creator | Shepherd, Job, author. |
| Other author/creator | Shepherd, Job. |
| Other author/creator | Franklin, James, 1732?-1762. |
| Other author/creator | Franklin, James, 1732?-1762, printer. |
| General note | The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy. |
| General note | Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 25, 1751. |
| General note | The Anatomy is the only illustration. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. |
| References | Evans, 6780 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 12801 |
| References | Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 103 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, W22768. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Almanacs. |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Rhode Island 1752. |
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