Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786. : ... Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 25$ n.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19372.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1786.

Advertisements.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed and sold by E. Russell, next door to Liberty-Pole, by wholesale or retail, cheap. Price 7 coppers single., [1785]

Notes:

Evans, who saw no copy, gives title: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786.

A note by the author on p. [4], signed with the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., is dated at Providence, indicating that the almanac is the work of Benjamin West. It begins with a warning against purchasing "a counterfeit Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for 1786, without plates."

The present almanac is a reissue by Russell, with augmented title, of his Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1786. The two issues are otherwise identical except that at the head of p. [3] is added "(See plate p. 5)" and at the foot of p. [24] is appended an advertisement.

Title vignette.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19372).

Cited in:

Evans 19372

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3360

OCLC:

55836523