Author: Thomas, Robert B. [Bailey]
Title: The Farmer's Almanack: Calculated on a New and Improved Plan, for the Year of Our Lord, 1802... . Fitted to the Town of Boston, But Will Serve for Any of the Adjoining States...
Description: Boston, Printed by Manning & Loring, for John West, 1801. First edition. Second state (no order of preference). Stitched paper wrappers. 44 pp. of [48]. Illus. with woodcut vignettes to title page and at the head of each month. 12mo. (20 cm). No. X. Scarce. OCLC and RLIN show only two libraries holding copies, American Antiquarian Society and Buffalo / Erie. In addition to calendars and notices, articles on Pruning Orchards and Harvesting Wheat. Shaw & Shoemaker 473; Drake 3635. Wrappers absent, lower half of title leaf and last two leaves missing, front edges with chips, tears, and creases, scattered foxing, a few soil marks. Small institutional bookplate from the typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company tipped in.

Keywords: , Americana, Americana, Almanacs, 19th c., Fruit Trees, cider, Hogs Bristles, drowning, ,


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