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Mills and Hicks's British and American register, with an almanack for the year 1774 : Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Calculated for the use of all the New-England provinces.

Other author/creatorWest, Benjamin, 1730-1813.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBoston : Printed by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office in School-Street, next door to Cromwell's-Head, [1774]
Description108 pages ; 13 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12869. ^A478749
General noteThe register includes Great-Britain, the New England colonies, and Nova Scotia.
General noteAdvertised by Mills and Hicks in the Massachusetts gazette and the Boston post-boy and advertiser, Jan. 10, 1774.
General noteIn the almanac (p. 12-24) the eclipse predictions and the calendar page calculations duplicate those in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for ... 1774, also published by Mills and Hicks, which is attributed to Benjamin West. See Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography.
General noteErrors in paging: p. 31, 74 misnumbered 13, 47.
General noteBooksellers' advertisement, p. 108.
References Evans 12869
References Drake, M. Almanacs, 3235
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 12869).
Genre/formAlmanacs Massachusetts 1774.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.

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