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Almanacs.
Rhode Island Almanack, The, for the year, 1728. **H .99a.212 Being the First ever Printed in that Colony. Carefully reproduced in exact facsimile, by means at that time Unknown, without sensi- ble Alteration, from the Single Copy which, it is believed, has sur- vived the permutations of One Hundred and Eighty-Four Years; Together with a Brief Account of James Franklin the Printer, who was persecuted for the Expression of his Opinions in Boston, and found a more Congenial Home at the Mouth of Narragansett Bay. The Almanack by Poor Robin (alias J. F.) And the Account by a Later Hand, Providence. Printed . . . under the oversight of Will Chatterton.
IQII. (19) pp. 16¥2 cm. [This work is kept on the Special Libraries Floor.]
This card was printed at the Boston & Public Library, November 6, 1912. BAF
H8270 — Almanacs. — Poor Robin. — Franklin, James, printer. -1735.