Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, or, The federal calendar, for the year of our redemption, 1788...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20877.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Massachusetts -- 1788.

National songs.

Advertisements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by E. Russell, at his office next Liberty-Pole., [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The Bickerstaff almanacs published by Russell for the years 1783-1793 are attributed to Benjamin West by Evans, the Dictionary of American biography, and C.L. Nichols, Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts (1912). The attribution is traditional, because of West's association with the Bickerstaff pseudonym; but most of these issues can be shown to be the probable work of other calculators. The present one, however, in the contents of its calendar pages, resembles those for 1786 and 1787, whose prefaces are dated at Providence, West's home.

Illustrated title page, with legend: Representation of the Federal chariot.

Advertised in the Massachusetts centinel, Boston, Nov. 7, 1787.

"The grand Constitution: or, The palladium of Columbia: a new Federal song."--p. [3].

Last page contains advertisements.

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 20877).

Cited in:

Evans 20877

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3394

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