Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, . . . American newspapers 80) features a "butterfly fold"

80) features a "butterfly fold" construction

This book is populated with characters straight out of fairy tales and nursery rhymes

For it is her birthday

He was fond of fine clothes

Bound in original blue cloth-covered boards with a large color pictorial paste-label applied to the front cover

Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, . . . American newspapers 80) features a "butterfly fold"(Franklin, Benjamin) Saunders, Richard, (pseudonym); Franklin, Benjamin; Grew, Theophilus. Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a meridian of Near Five Hours West of London . . . Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin and D. Hall, [1749]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo 7" x 4". [36] pp. Original printed self wrappers, uncut, housed in a later