Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774 ... : Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25° n.
| Other author | West, Benjamin, 1730-1813. |
| Other author | Callender, Joseph, 1751-1821, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office, in School-Street, next to Cromwell's Head Tavern, (Price seven coppers single, and three and four pence the dozen.), [1773] |
| Description | 32 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13074. ^A478749 |
| General note | The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse notes are identical, and the calendar page notes practically so, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1774 (Providence). The calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are identical, though the rest vary, being for Boston rather than Providence. |
| General note | Some copies illustrated with a copperplate engraving, others with a woodcut. Both are signed by Joseph Callender. |
| General note | Advertised in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston post-boy, Oct. 18-25, 1773. |
| General note | Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint. |
| General note | Advertisement for printing work and books for sale by Mills and Hicks, p. 32. |
| References | Evans 13074 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3230 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13074). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1774. |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston. |
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