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Poor Job, 1753. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1753 ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South-Carolina. By Job Shepherd, philom. [Two lines of verse]
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- Newport [R.I.] : Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house, [1752]
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- [24]p. : ill. ; 8⁰
- 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.
- Advertised in the Boston evening post, Dec. 11, 1752.
- The Anatomy is the only illustration.
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Evans, 6929
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 12802
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 113
- English Short Title Catalog, W22769.