The Federal almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1792
Subtitle: Being bissextile, or leap-year, and the sixteenth of American independence
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 23981
Publisher: Printed for and sold by the booksellers.
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Portraits, caricatures
Notes: Apparently by Osgood Carleton. The calculations in the eclipse predictions, and those for the sun, moon, and tides in the calendar pages, are identical with those in his An astronomical diary or An almanack for 1792 (Boston: S. Hall). The wording of the eclipse predictions is virtually identical. There are different sets of notes on the calendar pages, but with frequent correspondences.

Identical in content and typography, except for the title page, with Bickerstaff's genuine almanack for 1792 (Boston: Printed for and sold by the booksellers). Though Evans fails to mention the fact, it is probably for this reason that he attributes the calculations to Benjamin West, as he does those of the Bickerstaff issue and of nearly all almanacs issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym.

Signatures: [A]⁶ B⁶.

Title vignette (portrait of George Washington).

Evans 23981

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3477