Poor Will's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1779 ...
Contributors: Andrews, William; Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15722
Publisher: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third Streets, and opposite Elbow-Lane.
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 36
Notes: Attributed by Evans to William Andrews, the pseudonym which appeared on the title page of the first three issues

With the exception of the Hoch-Deutsch-Americanische Calender, all the almanacs published in Pennsylvania for 1779 contain the same calculations and have most of the same astronomical notes on the calendar pages, and are clearly the work of the same author. (In those published at Lancaster, the calculations for the sun and a few for the bright stars are adjusted slightly in the autumn months.) The only one of these almanacs naming a real person as its calculator is Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender (Lancaster), by David Rittenhouse

"This almanack is sold, wholesale and retail, by Mary K. Goddard, at the post-office in Baltimore-Town."--p. [36]

Advertised in the Pennsylvania packet, Philadelphia, Oct. 6, 1778

The Anatomy is the only illustration

Evans 15722

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 10080

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15722)