The New-England almanack, or, Lady's and gentleman's diary, for the year of our Lord Christ 1788: ... [microform] : Calculated for the meridian of Providence ... / By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; philom. ...
- Published
- Providence : Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare's Head, near the State-House, [1787]
- Physical Description
- 24 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Additional Creators
- Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818 and West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
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- Series
- Genre(s)
- Note
- "Isaac Bickerstaff" is a common pseudonym in almanacs.
Advertised in the Providence gazette, Oct. 13, 1787.
Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages are frequently identical with or similar to those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1788 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The calculations for the moon are identical throughout. The other calculations on the calendar pages vary to a degree reflecting the difference in meridian between New London and Providence.
West and Carter, the publisher, severed relations with the 1781 issue. West's almanac was published thereafter at Providence by Bennett Wheeler as the North American calendar, while Carter continued the New England almanack over the Bickerstaff pseudonym with which West is often identified. Cf. Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs, 1643-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): 24-26.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20880).
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1065
Drake, M. Almanacs, 12896
Evans, C. American bibliography, 20880
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