Bickerstaff's New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1787. ..
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Norwich, but will serve without any essential variation for the states of Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire, New-York and Vermont ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20137
Publisher: Printed by John Trumbull, and sold by the gross, dozen or single.
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Norwich [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Notes: Attributed to Benjamin West by Evans and in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 24 (1914): 102, 129. However, the actual calculator was Nathan Daboll. The calculations in the almanac, excepting those in the tides column, are identical with those in The New England almanack for 1787 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The notes on the calendar pages are also duplicated, except that a few are omitted in Bickerstaff.

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 12, 1786.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D².

Two states noted. One has [28] p., as described here. The other has [24] p. only, with a substantially different setting of gathering C and without gathering D.

Advertisement for books sold by the printer, p. [26].

Evans 20137

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 263

Drake, M. Almanacs, 401