Poor Will's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1783 ...
Contributors: Andrews, William; Briggs, Isaac, 1763-1825
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17459
Publisher: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market Street, between Second and Third-Street.
Published: 1782
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

The author was Isaac Briggs, than a tutor at Pennsylvania College, who calculated Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender for 1783, published at Lancaster. All of the Pennsylvania almanacs for this year have the same calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, with additions and some omissions, as the Nord-Americanische Calender, which alone names a real person as its author

Samuel Stearns, the Massachusetts calculator, states: "I observed at Philadelphia, in 1783, that a number of almanacks were published from one calculation, under fictitious names, as Father Abraham, Poor Will, Poor Richard, &c.; but could not learn who was the author. The same calculation was also published in the Jersies, under some other name."--The American oracle (New York, 1791), p. 44

The Anatomy is the only illustration

Evans 17459

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 10152

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. 17459)