Accession number
PML 83208
Published
Philadelphia : R. Desilver, 1825 [i.e. 1824]
Credit line
Gift of the Hroswitha Club in memory of Anne Lyon Haight, 1977.
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴
Running head: "Desilver's Almanack".
At head of p. 26: "War Department."
Folded leaf at end contains tide tables, etc., "A Table, | Showing the time of sun-rising and setting for any place in the United States." Verso: " A Table | Showing the hours and minutes that are to be added to the Moon's South-| ing, to find the time of High-water at all the under-named places."; cut edges at front appear to be evidence that a folding leaf was once there.
Contains the first printing in a book format of the poem "Account of a visit from St. Nicholas" on p. 40 (cataloged in an analytic record, PML 83208.1).
Registered for copyright 27 August 1824 (cf. Marshall).
Running head: "Desilver's Almanack".
At head of p. 26: "War Department."
Folded leaf at end contains tide tables, etc., "A Table, | Showing the time of sun-rising and setting for any place in the United States." Verso: " A Table | Showing the hours and minutes that are to be added to the Moon's South-| ing, to find the time of High-water at all the under-named places."; cut edges at front appear to be evidence that a folding leaf was once there.
Contains the first printing in a book format of the poem "Account of a visit from St. Nicholas" on p. 40 (cataloged in an analytic record, PML 83208.1).
Registered for copyright 27 August 1824 (cf. Marshall).
Description
56, [2] p., [1] folded leaf ; 23 cm (8vo)
Binding
Original buff wrappers; housed in red cloth chemise and slipcase with red morocco lettering piece.
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