Poor Job, 1751. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1751 : ... 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].

Other author Shepherd, Job.
Other author Franklin, James, 1732?-1762.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1750]
Description24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 6606. ^A478749
General noteThe preface shows 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 noteAdvertised in the Boston evening post, Oct. 29, 1750.
General noteThe Anatomy is the only illustration.
References Evans 6606
References Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 94
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 12800
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. 6606).
Genre/formAlmanacs Rhode Island 1751.

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