Franklin Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanack

Rocket Edition, 1999. — 90 p.
Selected by Jon Craft."Poor Richard's Almanack" was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
B. Franklin, the American inventor, statesman, and publisher, achieved success with Poor Richard's Almanack. Almanacks were very popular books in colonial America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household hints, puzzles, and other amusements. Poor Richard's Almanack was also popular for its extensive use of wordplay, and some of the witty phrases coined in the work survive in the contemporary American vernacular.Poor Richard's quotations, being a collection of quotations from Poor Richard almanacks, published by Benjamin Franklin in the in the Years of our Lord 1733 through 1758.
The linecuts used throughout this book are based on the original linecuts used by Benjamin Franklin in the "Poor Richard's Almanacks".