Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord 1781
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42: 25 n. But will also serve the adjacent states without any sensible error.
By: By Abraham Weatherwise, philom.
Contributors: West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.; Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.; Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16979.
Publisher: Printed and sold by John D. M'Dougall and Company, two doors south of the Treasurer's Office.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 -- Portraits, caricatures, etc.
Notes: Erroneously attributed by Evans to David Rittenhouse. The calculations and notes on the calendar pages, and the eclipse predictions, are identical with those in Russell's American almanack for 1781 by Benjamin West (Danvers, Mass.)

Advertised in the Boston gazette, Oct. 23, 1780.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B℗ø C-Fþ́ ́℗ø.

Metal cut portrait of George Washington, p. [7], commonly attributed to Paul Revere. Cf. Brigham, Clarence. Paul Revere's engravings (Worcester, Mass., 1954), p. 108-109.

With one of two editions of the engraved frontispiece "A picturesque view of the state of Great Britain for 1780", distinguishable by the arrangement of the columns of the "Explanation". One edition has articles I-V in the first column, while the other has articles I-VI.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [36]

Evans 16979.

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 3303.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16979)