The farmer's almanack, calculated on a new and improved plan, for the year of our Lord, 1820. ... : Fitted to the town of Boston, but will answer for the adjoining states. ... / By Robert B. Thomas. ; [Four lines of verse from Grahame].
| Author/creator |
Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846 |
| Other author/creator | Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850 engraver. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed by J.H.A. Frost, for West, Richardson & Lord, proprietors of the copy right; and for sale at their bookstore, no. 75, Cornhill, and by most other booksellers in Boston, Salem, Newburyport, &c. by the author, in West-Boylston, and other booksellers and traders in N. England. (Price $9 per gross, 87 1/2 cents per dozen, and 12 1/2 cents single.), [1819] |
| Description | 48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
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| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 47945. ^A575643 |
| General note | At head of title: Number XXVIII. |
| General note | The title vignette, which first appeared in the 1819 issue and is a freshly engraved version of that used in previous issues, is signed: B. [i.e., Abel Bowen]. Cf. Sinclair Hamilton, Early American book illustrators and wood engravers (1958), p. 79. |
| General note | Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Dec. 29, 1819. |
| General note | Advertisement for the Boston book and stationery store of West, Richardson & Lord, p. [48]. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 47945 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3834 |
| 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. 47945). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1820. |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston. |
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