• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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]
  • Contributor: Thomas, Robert Bailey [Author]; Blunt, Edmund March [bookseller.]; Cushing, Henry [bookseller.]; Loring, James [printer.]; Dabney, John [bookseller.]; West, John [bookseller.]; Smith, Moses [bookseller.]; Thomas, Robert Bailey [bookseller.]; Carlton, William [bookseller.]; Manning, William [printer.]
  • Corporation: Worcester County Law Library (Worcester, Mass.)
  • imprint: 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]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([48]p); 12°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Almanacs, English United States Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Advertised in the Independent chronicle, October 27, 1796
    At head of title: No. V
    Drake, M. Almanacs, 3566
    Drake, M. Almanacs, 3567
    English Short Title Catalog, W24797
    Evans, 31294
    Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library
    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
    Title vignette
    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