West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.

Includes verse.
Cover title.
Isaac Bickerstaff is the pseudonym of Benjamin West.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.
Woodcut drawings of George Washington and Horatio Gates on title page titled: The glorious Washington and Gates. Print shows side view of faces.
Washington's illustration is first known American print of Washington and this is its 2nd printed appearance (1st use is on a 1776 Salem printing of the Declaration of Independence).
"The anatomy of man's body as governed by the 12 constellations", page [2].
"Roads to the principal Towns on the Continent, &c. from Boston : with the names of those who keep houses of entertainment": pages [22-24].
Printer's advertisement, page [24].
Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Dec. 11, 1777.
Title and text printed within ruled border.

Cover title.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 columns on the calendar pages, eclipse predictions, and other astronomical material duplicate those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1769 (Boston : Mein and Fleeming). "Distances of the principal towns on the Continent from Boston, with the intermediate miles": pages [21]-[24]. "The liberty song. In freedom we're born, etc." With music: page[34]. "Table of the kings and queens..." pages [36]-[39] "A chronological table of the most remarkable events in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, from the year 1602..." pages [38]-[41]. Advertisements for books, stationery and medicine, pages [43]-[44]. Title vignette is a framed portrait of "John Wilkes, Esq" surrounded by figures and books. Parenthesis substituted for square bracket in imprint transcription. Woodcut illustrations. Title and text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Boston chronicle, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1768.