Cottom's New Virginia Almanack for 1817.

• imprint_number: 1816.051
• title: Cottom's new Virginia Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1817; Being the first after bissextile or leap year; and 41st of American Independence. … Adapted to the latitude & meridian of Richmond. Calculated by David Richardson, Louisa County, Va.
• sequence_number: 51
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: John M. & David Burke for Peter Cottom
• author: Richardson, David (1787-1871).
• notes: Imprint states: "Richmond: Published annually by Peter Cottom, and for sale at his book stores, in Richmond and Lynchburg." Colophon at end of text [p.36} identifies the press employed by Cottom as the brothers John M. & David Burke.
  Content typographically identical to Cottom's New Virginia & North Carolina Almanack for 1817 (1816.052), with exceptions of minor change in title page text above ornamental word "Almanack" and substitution of text from middle of p. 24 through p. 27, with the North Carolina edition carrying information on that state's courts and government on those pages.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • David Burke
  • John McDonald Burke
  • Peter Cottom

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