Almanacs, American -- 1769

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.