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It was the second work printed in the English colonies of America altogether (the first being The Oath of a Free-man, printed earlier in the same year). [1] The earliest New England almanac of which an extant copy survives in the Library of Congress [2] was published by Zechariah Brigden in Cambridge in 1659. [3]
In 1457 the first printed almanac was published at Mainz, by Gutenberg (eight years before the famous Bible). Regio-Montanus produced an almanac in 1472 (Nuremberg, 1472), which continued in print for several centuries. In 1497 the Sheapheard's Kalendar, translated from French (Richard Pynson) became the first almanac to be printed in English.
Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
The Old Farmer's Almanac. First printed in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas. ... John Stotts, an east-central Oklahoma farmer who also is a sales enablement specialist with WinField United, a company that ...
John Siberch (c. 1476–1554) was the first Cambridge ... In 1520 he commissioned the Cologne printer Eucharius Cervicornus to print a Greek ... [Almanac for the year ...
Sagendorph served as the Almanac ' s editor until his death in 1970. His nephew, Judson D. Hale Sr., took over and kept the Almanac true to the vision of his uncle. In 2000, the editorial reins were passed to Janice Stillman, the first woman in the Almanac ' s history to hold the position, and she was succeeded, in 2023, by Carol Connare. [21]
His first use of Caslon type was employed in the printing of The Pennsylvania Gazette in 1738. [231] Books, newspapers and broadsides, were mostly printed in Caslon old style types, while many important printed works were also printed with Caslon type, including the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence, by John Dunlap in ...
e. Christoph Sauer (1695 – September 25, 1758) was the first German-language printer and publisher in North America. Johann Christoph Sauer was born in 1695 in Ladenburg (near Heidelberg), the son of a Reformed pastor. He came to the county (Graftschaft) of Wittgenstein in central Germany as a child with his widowed mother some time between ...