Boston almanac for the year 1855
Subtitle: number xx
By: by Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge.
Contributors: Coolidge, George, 1817-1888; Boynton, George W., d. 1884; Damrell & Moore
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Boston; Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Almanacs, American -- Boston -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Boston Almanac for 1855
Notes: General advertisements on p. [1-10] at beginning.  P. [1-8] printed in black on yellow paper and p. [9-10] printed in gold on blue paper.

T.p. printed in red and black with thin double red rule border. Text printed within thick and thin double rule border.

General advertisements on p. [2-26] at end.  P. [21-22] printed in gold on blue paper and p. [23-26] printed in black on yellow paper.

Includes wood-engraved illustrated head-pieces.

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 1855" 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: "Baker-Smith-Andrew.".  Most illustrations within the text are unsigned.  One is signed: "Baker".

Includes full-page wood-engraved portraits: "Jerome V. C. Smith, Mayor of Boston.": p. [160] and "Henry J. Gardner, Governor Elect of Massachusetts.": p. [177].

Includes "Index to Boston Almanac for 1855.": p. [198].

MASS copy: Bound in brown fine rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Covers blocked in blind with a decorative border incorporating small astrological symbols.  General advertisements printed in gold on blue endpapers.  Lacking front and back free endpaper.  With inkstamp: "Withdrawn from the Crerar Libr[ary]".