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 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : 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] |
| Description | 48 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Manning, William, 1767-1849, printer. |
| Other author/creator | Loring, James, 1770-1850, printer. |
| Other author/creator | West, John, 1770-1827, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Cushing, Henry, 1777-1860, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Carlton, William, 1771?-1805 bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Dabney, John, 1752-1819, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846 bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Moses, 1740?-1812, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Worcester County Law Library (Worcester, Mass.), donor. |
| General note | At head of title: No. V. |
| General note | Advertised in the Independent chronicle, October 27, 1796. |
| General note | Title vignette. |
| General note | Two 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 note | Some 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 note | Reproduction 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 note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Almanacs. |
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