Poor Richard, 1736. An almanack for the year of Christ 1736
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of five hours west from London, but may without sensible error, serve all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina.
By: By Richard Saunders, philom.
Contributors: Saunders, Richard.; Grew, Theophilus, d. 1759.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3903.
Publisher: Printed and sold by B. Franklin, at the new printing-office near the market.
Published: 1735
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: "Richard Saunders" is a pseudonym.

An advertisement by Theophilus Grew for his school of mathematics appears on p. [24]. Similar advertisements are found in the issues for 1737 and 1743-1751. During this period Grew, the calculator of other almanacs, was probably the calculator of Poor Richard.

Advertised in the Pennsylvania gazette, Philadelphia, Nov. 27/Dec. 4, 1735.

Signatures: [A-C]⁴.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Evans 3903.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 524.

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 9587.

Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 103.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3903)