Poor Job, 1755. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1755
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina
By: By Job Shepherd, philom. ; [Two lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7313
Publisher: Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house.
Published: 1754
Place of publication: Newport [R.I.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Nov. 25, 1754.

Signatures: [A-C]⁴.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Evans 7313

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 139

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12804