The Rhode-Island almanack, for the year of our Lord 1791
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Newport, latitude 41⁰ 25' n. and longitude 71⁰ 15' w. and may serve the adjacent states
By: The astronomical calculations by E. Thornton. ; [Eight lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22932
Publisher: Printed and sold by P. Edes.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Newport (Rhode-Island)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Advertised in the Newport herald, Oct. 14, 1790.

"The printer having for three years' past condescended to print my almanack in the plain and friendly style, which style, though adapted and agreeable to me and my friends, is not adapted nor so agreeable to his friends and customers in general ... I have sold my calculations to him ... he to publish the said almanack to his liking ..."--Preface, p. [2]. Two states noted, one with the months expressed in the "plain and friendly style" (e.g. "VI. month, called June"), the other using the conventional names of the months.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

Evans 22932

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1193

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12915