Webster's calendar; or The Albany almanack, for the year of our Lord 1797
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Albany; north latitude 42 degrees 45 minutes--from the English observatory, 73 degrees and 8 minutes west
By: By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 31617
Publisher: Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, in the White House, corner of State and Pearl-Streets. Sold at their bookstore, Albany: by William W. Wands, at his printing-office, Lansingburgh: by Jacob. Dockstader, at his printing-office, Johnstown, by Samuel Colt, Canandarqua [i.e., Canandaigua]--and by all the post-riders from said offices. Great allowance to those who buy large quantities.
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: All the calculations, astronomical notes, and weather predictions on the calendar pages are identical with those in Hutchins improved for 1797. The notes also duplicate almost entirely those in Greenleaf's New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey almanack for this year. Both of these almanacs were calculated by Andrew Beers, though without his name on the title pages. The notes are identical also with those in his Beers's almanac and ephemeris for 1797, published at Hartford, and in Stoddard's diary or The Columbian almanack for 1797 (Hudson, N.Y.), also issued with Beers' name as calculator.

Evans attributes this issue of Webster's calendar, as he does nearly all almanacs published under the Bickerstaff pseudonym, to Benjamin West. The attribution is traditional, but the majority of these almanacs can be shown to have been the work of other calculators.

Advertised in the Albany gazette, Dec. 2, 1796.

Signatures: [A]² B⁴ C² D⁴ E² F⁴.

Printers' advertisement, p. [4].

Evans 31617

Drake, M. Almanacs, 6064