Boston almanac for the year 1853
Subtitle: no. 18
By: by Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge.
Contributors: Coolidge, George, 1817-1888; Dewing, Francis, fl. 1716-1722; Boynton, George W., d. 1884; Damrell & Moore
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Boston; Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Almanacs, American -- Boston -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Boston Almanac :
Notes: General advertisements on p. [2-29] at end printed in red and pale brown with thin red rule border.

Includes wood-engraved illustrated head-pieces and decorative initial.

T.p. printed within thin double rule border.  Text printed within thick and thin double rule border.

Smaller folded map entitled: "The town of Boston in New England by Capt. John Bonner 1722." with imprints:"Engraved for the Boston Almanac 1853", "Engraved and Printed by Fra. Dewing.  Boston N. E. 1722  Sold by Capt. John Bonner and Willm. Price against ye Town House where may be had all sorts of Prints Mapps & c." and "G. W. Boynton".

Larger folded map entitled: "New map of Boston, comprising the whole city, with the new boundaries of the wards.  Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac for 1853." with imprint: "Engraved by G. W. Boynton".

"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by Damrell & Moore In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--T.p. verso.

Wood-engraved ill. t.p. with signature: "W. J. Baker Sc.".  Two illustrations within the text are signed: "Baker-Smith".

Includes "Alphabetical Index to Boston Almanac for 1853.": p. [168].

P. 82 misnumbered "8" and p. 85 misnumbered "5".

MASS copy: Bound in blue fine diaper-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Covers blocked in blind with a decorative border incorporating small pictorial vignettes.  Lower cover with central blocking in blind: "16 Devonshire St.  Damrell & Moore  Book-binders, Boston.".  Spine with gold imprint: "The John Crerar Library".  General advertisements printed in light brown and red on all sides of endpapers.  With inkstamp: "Withdrawn from the Crerar Library".