Poor Richard's Franklin almanac, calculated and improved for the year 1807. ... / Calculated by an inhabitant of Boston. ; [Table of zodiacal signs, and 4 lines of verse].
| Other author | Newell, Andrew, 1780?-1808. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed and published by A. Newell, and for sale at his printing-office in Devonshire Street. Sold also by the booksellers in Boston, Salem, Newbury-port, Portsmouth, and Portland, and by booksellers in various other places. Price--6 cents single, 37 1/2 cents dozen, 4 dolls. a gross, [1806] |
| Description | 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 50717. ^A575643 |
| General note | At head of title: (No. V.). |
| General note | Other printings of the issue for 1807 are entitled Poor Richard's almanack. |
| General note | The issue for 1806 is entitled Poor Richard's genuine New-England almanack. |
| General note | Two states of gathering D (p. [21-24]) noted. Page [24] of one includes a bookseller's advertisement by Etheridge & Bliss. Page [24] of the other includes a bookseller's advertisement by Thomas & Whipple of Newburyport. |
| General note | The author of this series of almanacs was probably their publisher, Andrew Newell. In the pamphlet entitled Darkness at noon, or The great solar eclipse of the 16th of June, 1806, by an inhabitant of Boston (Boston: D. Carlisle & A. Newell, 1806), the calculations of the eclipse and some passages concerning it correspond to those in the extensive discussion of the eclipse in the almanac for 1806, entitled Poor Richard's genuine New-England almanack. The two subsequent almanacs in the series, for 1807 and 1808, carry the phrase "Calculated by an inhabitant of Boston" on their title pages. Newell, to whom Darkness at noon has been attributed, began printing in 1801 and died in 1808; the Poor Richard almanac series is coterminous with these dates. |
| General note | The preface to Darkness at noon states that this pamphlet on the eclipse and on eclipses generally was suggested to its author by an acquaintance, who must therefore have known him as an astronomical writer. His suggestion may have been prompted by the eclipse paragraphs in the 1806 almanac if both works are by the same hand. Newell's obituary in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Feb. 10, 1808, describes him as "A young man possessing a philosophical, active, and vigorous mind ... He furnished the best and most accurate account of the last great solar eclipse." |
| General note | Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Oct. 9, 1806. |
| General note | Title vignette (zodiac) with legend. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 50717 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3700 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 50717). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1807. |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston. |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Newburyport. |
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