Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1777 ...
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat 42' 25⁰ north. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 14776
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street, and Draper and Phillips, one door north of the Lamb-Tavern in Newbury-Street. (Price 6d single, and 4s per dozen.)
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Portraits
Notes: Attributed by Evans to Ezra Gleason. However, the eclipse notes and the calendar pages are identical in content and typography with those in An almanack for the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1777, by Daniel George (Boston: Draper & Phillips), except that the verse headings differ at the top of the calendar pages and a few changes appear in the text. In George the foot of the notes column on the June calendar page reads: "How pleasant is a draught of punch." In Bickerstaff this becomes "warm, pleasant, perhaps rain." In George, the foot of the November notes column reads: "Perhaps foul weather, with very high winds, then pleasant for the season. Advent S. St. Andr."The Bickerstaff version is "Perhaps foul weather, with very high winds. Rain or snow."

The changes include some corrections in the calculations. For November, all figures in the "High water, even." column are printed one line lower in Bickerstaff, with 0:41 inserted at the top. The last three items in the November "Moon's place" column and the final figure in the adjoining "Moon rise" column also differ in the two almanacs. Since both almanacs are clearly by George, being identical apart from these few slight variations, one or the other is evidently a revised issue.

Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Dec. 5, 1776.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

With a portrait of John Hancock, p. [3].

Evans 14776

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3265