Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1786
Subtitle: ... Fitted for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42' 25⁰ [sic] n.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19372
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell, next door to Liberty-Pole, by wholesale or retail, cheap. Price 7 coppers single.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
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.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (signature letters preceded by "Bickerstaff, 1786.").

Title vignette.

Evans 19372

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