Bickerstaff's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhodeisland, Newhampshire and Vermont almanack, for the year of our Lord 1799. ..
Subtitle: Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states. Together with matter, both useful and entertaining
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 35001
Publisher: Printed by Nathaniel & John Coverly, sold by them, at their bookstore in Salem.--Price 3 dollars and 75 cents per groce. 42 cents per dozen, and 6 cents single.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Salem, Mass.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Evans attributes the almanac, as he does most of those issued under the Bickerstaff pseudonym, to Benjamin West. Most of these can be shown to have been definitely or probably the work of other calculators. Previous "Bickerstaff" almanacs with similar titles issued by Coverly were calculated by Osgood Carleton and Samuel Bullard, and the calendar page notes in the present issue are in their style rather than West's. West issued no almanacs under his own name for the years between 1787 and 1804.

Two states of gathering B noted, with some page forms rearranged and the others reset. In one, "Courts" begins on p. [17] and in the other on p. [15]. The two states are respectively identical (except for the title and the title vignette) with the two variant states of Weatherwise's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island. Newhampshire and Vermont almanack for 1799, also published at Salem by Nathaniel and John Coverly.

The last pages of the first Weatherwise state are in a different order. Still another issue of the first variant was printed as The farmer's almanack for 1799, with imprint "Massachusetts: Printed for, and sold by the booksellers" (Evans 33709). Another issue of the second variant has the Weatherwise title with imprint "Medford: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly."

Signatures: A-B⁶.

Evans 35001

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3594