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A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings. On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin announced in The Pennsylvania Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [4]
On December 28, 1732, Franklin announced in The Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, also known as Poor Richard's Almanack, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [6] On August 6, 1741, Franklin published an editorial following the death of Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer and public figure in Philadelphia and ...
He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". [4] After 1767, he was associated with the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the policies of the British Parliament and the Crown. [5]
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In the year of Breintnall's death, his wife, Esther Parker, donated two volumes of leaf prints compiled by her husband to the Library Company. In 1737 Breintnall wrote an article about "Rattlesnake Herb"' for Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack [11] Franklin sold around 10,000 copies of this Almanack. Printed near the article is an image of a leaf.
Ann's most notable work was compiling and publishing five editions of the Rhode Island Almanack, for the years 1737–1741. In 1741, she began selling her brother-in-law Benjamin's almanac, Poor Richard's Almanack, and in 1745, she printed 500 copies of the Acts and Laws of Rhode Island as a folio edition, her largest commission. [2]
The "Poor Richard" Franklin refers to, Richard Saunders, was an actual person. Richard Saunders, 1613-1692, was an English astrologer-physician. In 1677 he published The Astrological Judgement and Practice of Physick, which at the time, and for more than a century thereafter, was the standard book on the subject. Franklin had this book in his ...