Note 578 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Hildeburn’s Century of Printing; the Catal. of books relating to Franklin in the Boston Public Library; Brinley Catal., nos. 3,197, etc., 4,312, etc. Cf. Parton’s Franklin; Thomas’s Hist. of Printing. The series of Poor Richard’s Almanacks was begun in 1733 (fac-simile of title in Smith’s Hist. and lit. curios., pl. ix., and Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia, i. 237). Cf. Catal. of works relating to Franklin in Boston Pub. Library, p. 14. In 1850-52 a publication at New York, called Poor Richard’s Almanac, reprinted the Franklin portion of the original issues for 1733-1741.