An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1718 / By N.W.

Author/creator Whittemore, Nathaniel
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Boston] America : Printed [by Thomas Fleet?] for the author, 1718 [i.e., 1717]
Description16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 1937. ^A478749
General noteAt head of title: MDCCXVIII.
General noteThe sole illustration, a cut of The Man of Signs (Reilly 1783), appeared in several Whittemore almanacs issued without imprint, of which those for 1716, 1718, and 1726 are ascribed by Evans to the printer Thomas Fleet. It appeared later in Nathan Bowen's almanac for 1735, Whittemore's for 1738, and Joseph Stafford's for 1740, all published with Fleet's imprint. No other printer is known to have used the cut.
General notePage [16] contains an advertisement of Joseph Alleine's Remaines as "now in the press." The work was published in 1717.
References Evans 1937
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 2979
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1937).
Genre/formAlmanacs Massachusetts 1718.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.

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