Poor Job's country and townsman's almanack for the year of our Lord 1758
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the vertex of the colony of Rhode-Island, but without any perceivable error, may serve even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina
By: By Job Shepherd. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 8037
Publisher: Printed by J. Franklin.
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Newport, Rhode-Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Notes: The prefaces to this series show that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.

Signatures: [A]⁸.

Evans 8037

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 178

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12805