The Farmer's Almanack: The Old Farmer's Almanac (1798-1974, No. 6-182 (with some gaps): Containing: 1798-1801, 1804, 1809-1810, 1822, 1824, 1826-1827, 1829-1830; 1850-1868; 1869-1905; 1905-1924, 1925-1974 (Loose issues) 135 issues)

Robert Bailey Thomas

John West, Brewer & Tileston; Jenks & Palmer, Cutter, Tower & Co., Cadence Caste, etc, 1798 - 1975.

Includes issues from: 1798-1801, 1804, 1809-1810, 1822, 1824, 1826-1827, 1829-1830; 3 hard bound runs: 1850-1868; 1869-1905; 1905-1924; 1925-1974 (Loose issues) 135 issues totol. Issues 6-182, with some gaps. Notes: 2 issues, 1798, 1810 lack the front cover.  Some cover wear.  Interestingly, old Mass. newspapers (1815 circa) have been used to make the Almanack a secondardy cover for a few of the loose volumes in the early 19th century.  Some minor cover wear to the older volumes, light soiling, marginal chipping. See our pictures. One of the bound volumes is signed, Robert J. Stevens, 1925. 

The Almanac is "the oldest continuously published periodical in North America."  The original Farmer's Almanac was founded in 1792 as a serial for weather, tides, planting charts, astronomy, recipes, articles gardening, and general farming.   A view of old agrarian New England.