![[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard Improved; Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the True Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; and the Rising, Setting and Southing of the Moon, for the Year of Our Lord 1749. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1748].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/NYR/2011_NYR_02514_0136_000(franklin_benjamin_poor_richard_improved_being_an_almanack_and_ephemeri083856).jpg?w=1)
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[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard Improved; Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the True Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; and the Rising, Setting and Southing of the Moon, for the Year of Our Lord 1749. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1748].
12mo. (6¾ x 3 7/8 in). 36 pp., Calendrical woodcuts. (Worn at edges, catching a letter or two, last leaf detached with loss to one corner, brittle, two leaves torn horizontally). Stabbed and sewn as issued. Wheat-colored morocco clamshell case. Drake 9705. Evans 6139; Miller 441.
FIRST EDITION "This is the first of the Poor Richards for which David Hall had the full printing responsibility as Benjamin Franklin's new partner and now active head of the shop." Franklin, in the preface to his 1750 almanac chided his new partner, observing that "in some Copies, the Earth's Circumference was said to be nigh 4000, instead of 24000 Miles, the Figure 2 being omitted at the Beginning. This was Mr. Printer's Fault; who being also somewhat niggardly of his Vowels, as well as profuse of his Consonants, put in one Place, among the Poetry, mad, instead of made, and in another wrapp'd instead of warp'd; to the utter demolishing of all Sense in those Lines, leaving nothing standing but the Rhime.'...For copies intended to be sold in the Northern Colonies, Benjamin Franklin in this almanac...provided for an appropriate stop-press insertion" (Miller).
12mo. (6¾ x 3 7/8 in). 36 pp., Calendrical woodcuts. (Worn at edges, catching a letter or two, last leaf detached with loss to one corner, brittle, two leaves torn horizontally). Stabbed and sewn as issued. Wheat-colored morocco clamshell case. Drake 9705. Evans 6139; Miller 441.
FIRST EDITION "This is the first of the Poor Richards for which David Hall had the full printing responsibility as Benjamin Franklin's new partner and now active head of the shop." Franklin, in the preface to his 1750 almanac chided his new partner, observing that "in some Copies, the Earth's Circumference was said to be nigh 4000, instead of 24000 Miles, the Figure 2 being omitted at the Beginning. This was Mr. Printer's Fault; who being also somewhat niggardly of his Vowels, as well as profuse of his Consonants, put in one Place, among the Poetry, mad, instead of made, and in another wrapp'd instead of warp'd; to the utter demolishing of all Sense in those Lines, leaving nothing standing but the Rhime.'...For copies intended to be sold in the Northern Colonies, Benjamin Franklin in this almanac...provided for an appropriate stop-press insertion" (Miller).