The Universal American almanack, or yearly magazine
Subtitle: Fitted to the latitude of 40 degrees, and a meridian of near five hours west from London; but may, without sensible error, serve all the northern provinces. For the year of our Lord 1772 ...
By: By Andrew Aguecheek, Esq; philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 11956
Publisher: Printed by William Evitt, at the Bible-in-Heart, in Strawberry-Alley, opposite the Bull's-Head Tavern.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Notes: The pseudonym Andrew Aguecheek is taken from the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth night.

The calculator was John Tobler, apparently with revisions by a later hand. The calculations on the calendar pages duplicate those in his Pennsylvania town and country-man's almanack for 1772 (Wilmington). The astronomical notes on these pages are also Tobler's, with some additions and omissions. A column for the moon's age replaces that for tides.

Though the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher's preface to the South Carolina and Georgia almanack for 1765 (Savannah) states that Tobler's calculations had then been completed up to 1800. The later almanacs contain indication that Tobler Junior is the author.

The calendar pages and other astronomical matter are printed from the same setting of type as that used in Poor Robin's almanack for 1772, also published by Evitt.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania journal, Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1771.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴.

Druggist's advertisement, p. [11].

Printer's advertisement, p. [28].

Evans 11956

Drake, M. Almanacs, 9968