Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 ... : Fitted for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25° N.
| Other author | West, Benjamin, 1730-1813. |
| Other author | Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump, [1782] |
| Description | 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17792. ^A478749 |
| General note | Attributed to Benjamin West in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and in the Dictionary of American biography. However, the eclipse notes, calculations, and notes on the calendar pages do not resemble those in West's North-American calendar for 1783 (Providence), whereas they contain frequent correspondences or similarities with Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for the same year, published at New London under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, such as to suggest a common authorship. |
| General note | Two states noted. One has a four-line advertisement for booksellers and shopkeepers in Boston and Salem on p. [24]; the other dfoes not. |
| General note | Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 28, 1782. |
| General note | Pages [7-21] contain a final installment of the poem "America invincible", issued separately by Russell in 1779. Sections appeared previously in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1779 (Russell), Russell's American almanack for 1780, 1781, and 1782, and Bickerstaff's Boston almanack (Russell) for 1782. The present installment concludes: "End of Book I. To be continued," but no more appeared in the succeeding almanacs published by Russell. |
| References | Evans 17792 |
| References | Drake, M. Almanacs, 3318 |
| 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. 17792). |
| Genre/form | Almanacs Massachusetts 1783. |
| Contains title | America invincible. |
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