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Subtitle: Whereas this day is printed and sold opposite the prison in Queen-Street, a pamphlet entitled, a Table for the ready turning any old tenor sum into lawful money ... This may inform the publick that the ingenious author has made upwards of one hundred mistakes in the first part ... The second and third part ... are correct, and copy'd from a table lately printed by Rogers and Fowle. ...
Contributors: Rogers, Gamaliel, 1704-1775; Fowle, Daniel, 1715-1787; Fowle, John, 1714-1764
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 6510
Publisher: Printed by Rogers and Fowle
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Printers; Publishers and publishing; Table for the ready turning of any old tenor sum into lawful money ... In four parts; Exact table to bring old tenor into lawful money. ...
Notes: Dated: Boston January 26. 1749,50.

At end: The true table referred to above, (which hitherto has been published by Rogers and Fowle, on one side of a sheet ...) in a few days will likewise be printed in a small fold convenient for the pocket-book, and sold by the abovesaid Rogers and Fowle.

Printed area measures 16.9 x 9.2 cm.

Cf. Evans entries 6495, 6496 and 6616, which record the rival editions of the tables. Evans, who on the basis of the AAS copy considered the Advertisement to be part of Joseph Green's Entertainment for a winter's evening (Evans 6510) and did not make a separate entry for it, makes reference to the advertisement in his entries 6496 and 6616. Reproduced as part of item 6510 in the Readex microform series.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Evans 6510

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.