Author: LEAVITT, WILLIAM B
Title: Leavitt's Farmer's Almanack, No. 83, 1879
Description: Concord, NH: Edson C. Eastman, 1879. 1st Thus. Paperback. Original 1879 printing. Cover tattered with chips. Brown wiith age. May have soiling from use on farm. Paper may be brittle especially cover. Original string in top left hand corner for hanging on wall. Contents readable. Sold by R.C. Dickey Druggist, Hillsboro Bridge, N.H. Author was nephew of Dudley Leavitt. This booklet is protected by an archival quality sleeve to maintain present condition. An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication listing a set of events forthcoming in the next year. Almanac's are among (if not the only) the oldest periodicals continuously published in the United States.Dudley Leavitt (1772 - September 20, 1851) was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school. Within a few years, Leavitt relocated to Meredith, where in addition to teaching school and farming, he began publishing in 1797 Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, one of the nation's earliest farmers' almanacs. Booklet in archival quality plastic sleeve for protection.; Vol. 83; Illustrations, Tables, charts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages. Fair with no dust jacket .

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