| dc.contributor.author |
Meanwell, Richard |
en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned |
2016-05-17T13:32:30Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2016-05-17T13:32:30Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
1774 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation |
St. George Tucker Signature Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.other |
AY256.N5 M4 1774 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10288/22224 |
|
| dc.format.extent |
[36] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo) |
en_US |
| dc.language.iso |
eng |
|
| dc.subject.lcsh |
Almanacs, American--New York (State) |
en_US |
| dc.title |
Meanwell's town and country almanack and ephemeris for the year of our Lord 1774 : being the second after leap-year, [the fourteenth year of the reign of King George III] ... fitted to the province of New-York ... / by Richard Meanwell, philo-ast. |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Text |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
Formerly part of Swem Library's Tucker-Coleman Collection. |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
Signatures: [A]⁴ B² C⁴ D² E⁴ F² |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
With an illustrated half-title. |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
The pseudonymous calculator states in his preface that this is his first almanac. |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
Advertised in the New York gazette and weekly mercury, Oct. 4, 1773. |
en_US |
| dc.description.note |
Bound in "Old Dutch" marbled paper and interleaved with blank pages which contain manuscript notes by St. George Tucker. Travel notes on trip to New York include "Beautiful country. Number of farms, orchards and meadows with haycocks -- girls spinning, carding and sewing -- Bed in corner -- chest of drawers with cups in a pyramid - Plates on the chimney piece; Mrs. Burton more beautiful than ever -- Quaker girl and her mama Innocence in her looks ... Princetown College not well built -- rough stone ..." Travel notes on trip to Charlestown include "Women not handsome. Talk like the negroes." Further notes include "Philadelphians enraged -- Boston news false." |
en_US |
| dc.type.genre |
Almanacs |
en_US |
| dc.publisher.original |
New-York: : Printed and sold by Hodge and Shober, at the newest printing-office, in Maiden-Lane, near the head of the Fly-Market., [1773] |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.printer |
Hodge, Robert, 1746?-1813, printer |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.printer |
Shober, Frederick, -1806?, printer |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.formerowner |
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827, former owner |
en_US |
| dcterms.isPartOf |
Rare Books: St. George Tucker signature |
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