Second edition of Edes & Gill's North-American almanack for the year of our Lord 1769
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. latt. 42⁰ 25' north. ... : To which is added the charter of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41885
Publisher: Printed and sold by Edes & Gill, in Queen-Street. (Price four shillings per dozen, and six pence single.)
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Other titles: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack for the year of our Lord 1769.
Notes: Attributed to Samuel Stearns by Evans (entry 11078). The preface, signed "Incog.", reads: "My first production of the astronomical kind is here presented to you. ... The cause of my not prefixing my real name to this my first essay, is (what I think) a prudent diffidence." The preface to the next issue, for 1770, is evidently by the ame author, and concludes: "I have not yet had time to think upon the name by which I should best like to be known in the world, and therefore must remain the public's humble servant, Incog."

However, the first almanac under Stearns' own name also appeared for 1770, entitled The North American's almanack (Boston: The author). Its calculations bear no resemblance to those in the 1770 Edes & Gill's North American almanack, which Evans again attributes to Stearns. Evans' attribution, therefore, is probably based upon the similarity in titles, since no other ground for it is apparent.

The second edition was advertised in the Boston gazette, Dec. 26, 1768.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ ²A-²B⁴ C⁴.

Frontispiece signed: P. Revere sculp.

Bristol B2945

Shipton & Mooney 41885

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3177