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245 00 a| Poor Job, 1754. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1754 :b| ... 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. [Two lines of verse].;

260 a| Newport [R.I.] :b| Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house,c| [1753];

300 a| 24 unnumbered pages :b| illustrations ;c| 8⁰.;

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500 a| 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.;

500 a| Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 26, 1753.;

500 a| The Anatomy is the only illustration.;

509 a| Signatures: [A-C]⁴. - COPY CONTAINS A LEAF WITH A TIDE TABLE, FORMERLY BOUND IN ANOTHER COPY OF THE ALMANAC. THE MB COPY ALSO HAS THE TIDE TABLE. DETERMINE IF THIS WAS PART OF THE ISSUE;

510 4 a| Evans,c| 7117;

510 4 a| Drake, M. Almanacs,c| 12803;

510 4 a| Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,c| 129;

510 4 a| English Short Title Catalog,c| W22770.;

500 a| Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.;

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650 0 a| Almanacs, Englishv| Early works to 1800.=| ^A196336;

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700 1 a| Shepherd, Job,e| author.=| ^A482152;

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700 1 a| Franklin, James,d| 1732?-1762.=| ^A482153;

700 1 a| Franklin, James,d| 1732?-1762,e| printer.=| ^A482153;

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Poor Job, 1754. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1754 : ... 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. [Two 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, [1753]
Description	24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 8⁰.
Supplemental Content	Full text online
Subjects	Almanacs, English--Early works to 1800.

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. 26, 1753.
General note	The Anatomy is the only illustration.
General note	Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
References	Evans, 7117
References	Drake, M. Almanacs, 12803
References	Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 129
References	English Short Title Catalog, W22770.
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 1754.

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