The Boston sheet almanack, for the year of our Lord God, 1774; : being the second after bissextile, or leap-year.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Callender, Joseph, 1751-1821, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42418.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1774.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations (relief cuts) ; 58 x 46 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed and sold by I. Thomas, near the market; and by Mills and Hicks, in School-Street. ..., [1773]

Notes:

The calculations for the months are typographically identical with those in Mills and Hicks's British and American register, with an almanack for the year 1774, attributed to Benjamin West. Other portions of the text are typographically identical with Biskerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774, also published by Mills and Hicks, and containing the same cuts as appear here.

With relief cut (Reilly 1051) entitled "A war canoe of New Zealand," and signed "J.C." [i.e., Joseph Callender]; and cuts of New Zealand natives and the man of signs (Reilly 1052, 1053, and 1807). Printed area measures 52.4 x 41.8 cm.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42418).

Cited in:

Bristol B3537

Shipton & Mooney 42418

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1662

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3231

OCLC:

55839050