ISBN: | 978-5-5105-5812-8 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ames` Almanack (almanac) was the first almanac printed in the British North American colonies. While Benjamin Franklin`s Poor Richard`s Almanac is the one often mentioned in contemporary history classes, at the time Ames` Almanack enjoyed a much larger readership. Franklin`s publication had a circulation of 10,000 copies, while Ames` Almanack had a circulation of 60,000.