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The cover of the 1793 edition. The first Old Farmer's Almanac, then known as The Farmer's Almanac, was edited by Robert Bailey Thomas, the publication's founder. [6] There were many competing almanacs in the 18th century, but Thomas's book was a success. [6] In its second year, distribution tripled to 9,000. [3]
What do the Farmers' Almanac and The Old Farmer's Almanac say about Oklahoma winter? The Old Farmer's Almanac: Predicts most Oklahomans (outside of the Panhandle) can expect a cold, snowy winter.
Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782.The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior ...
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]
In The Farmer Refuted, [2] Alexander Hamilton addresses directly the main person to whom he was writing in opposition with his first work, Samuel Seabury.Seabury wrote under the name "A. W. Farmer" (a pen name and abbreviation for 'a Westchester farmer').
The first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad (1908), cover design by William Hyde. The first illustrated edition of A Shropshire Lad was published in 1908, with eight county landscapes by William Hyde. [28] Those did not meet with Housman's approval, however: "They were in colour, which always looks vulgar," he reported. [29]
Writer and historian James Boyce, after some discussion of the book's strengths and weaknesses, says that, although a "flawed attempt", the book's appeal is to "a community of folk who ... are eager to learn from and engage with First Nations peoples and their heritage"; Pascoe is a skilled storyteller, and Dark Emu is a significant cultural ...
' a book most ancient and faithful '). The oldest existing manuscript is the Codex Parisinus 6842, written in Italy at some point before the end of the 12th century. The editio princeps was printed at Venice in 1472; Angelo Politian's collation of the Marcianus against his copy of this first printing is considered an important witness for the text.