An astronomical diary; or almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1772 : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42 25 north. .. / By Nathaniel Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ames, Nathaniel, 1741-1822, author.

Contributor:

Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11961.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1772.

Advertisements -- Taverns (Inns).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by T. and J. Fleet and Edes and Gill] Price 2s. 8d. per dozen, and six coppers single., [1771]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

One of two editions of Ames for 1772 published in Boston, the other printed for Ezekiel Russell and advertised by him in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston post-boy, Dec. 23, 1771. The present edition is presumably that advertised in the Boston evening post (T. and J. Fleet) and the Boston gazette (Edes and Gill), Dec. 30, as "to be sold by T. & J. Fleet, and Edes & Gill." It is doubtless the pirated edition anticipated by Russell in his advertisement. Richard Draper, who in previous years combined with these publishers in producing pirated Ames almanacs, was evidently not allied with them on this occasion. He is mentioned in Russell's advertisement among the booksellers from whom Russell's edition is obtainable.

The portraits are of a dwarf (on title page), John Dickinson, and Mrs. Catharine M'Caulay. They are copies or versions of the three cuts in Russell's edition of Ames, two of which were by Paul Revere. Evidently these versions are also by Revere, as an entry in his Day book for December 21, 1771, records a charge against Edes and Gill "to engraving 3 plates for Ames almanack." Cf. Brigham, C.S., Paul Revere's engraving, Worcester, Mass., 1954, pages 136. The evidence suggests that Edes and Gill secured a copy of Russell's edition on the day it appeared and ordered reproductions of the cuts from Revere.

Advertisement for Daniel Jones' Royal Exchange Inn, Boston, pages [24].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 11961).

Cited in:

Evans 11961

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3205

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