Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, . . . American newspapers Bound in original blue cloth-covered

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

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

While the majority of these works were collected as standalone miniature paintings of local professions and festivals

C: Curly Locks

Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris . . . for the Year of our Lord 1750. . . . Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, . . . American newspapers Bound in original blue cloth-covered(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