Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Pioneers - Juvenile literature Brown cloth backed light brown

Brown cloth backed light brown paper over beveled boards with titles stamped in gilt and a full color pictorial paste-on to upper cover with minute touches of wear to the extremities for what is a lovely copy of the book

mounted to the rectos of the blank paper leaves

the firm combined traditional juvenile publishing with structural play

the leaves and illustrations are without defect or flaw

FIRST COMBINED EDITION [Moon 217]

Poor Will's Pocket Almanack, for the Year 1784 Pioneers - Juvenile literature Brown cloth backed light brown(Almanacs 18th Century) POOR WILL'S POCKET ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR 1784. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, [1783]. FIRST EDITION. 24mo 4 1 8" x 2 9 16". Original string bound thick paper wrappers with splitting along the hinge, a crease to the lower fore edge corner of rear wrapper and a small loss of paper to the tip of same for what is a nice copy of the almanac. [24] pp., with a thick unprinted guard leaf bound in between each