The New-England almanack, or, Lady's and gentleman's diary, for the year of our Lord Christ 1784 ...
By: By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; philom.
Contributors: Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818.; West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18306.
Publisher: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at Shakespear's Head, near the State-House. (Great allowance made to those who purchase quantities.)
Published: 1783
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: "Isaac Bickerstaff" is a common pseudonym in almanacs.

Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are practically identical with those in The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for 1784 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are frequently identical or similar, and the calculations for the moon are the same in both almanacs. Most of the other calendar page calculations vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between New London and Providence.

West and Carter, the publisher, severed relations with the 1781 issue. West's almanac was published thereafter at Providence by Bennett Wheeler as the North American calendar, while Carter continued the New England almanack over the Bickerstaff pseudonym with which West is often identified. Cf. Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs, 1643-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): 24-26.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Advertised in the Providence gazette, Nov. 1, 1783.

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Evans 18306

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 940

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 12871

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18306).