Imprint Record

Virginia Almanack for 1806 (Gray).

• Imprint Number: 1805.037
• Title: The Virginia Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1806. Being the 2d. after Bissextile, or Leat-Year; and the 30th of American Independence. Containing, a great variety of amusing and useful matter. The astronomical calculations, by John Alexander, of Prince-George's County, Maryland.
• Sequence Number: 37
• Year: 1805
• Place Issued: Alexandria
• Issuing Press: Cottom & Stewart, for John Gray
• Author: Alexander, John.
• Notes: This title is typographically identical to the Jefferson Almanack for the year of our Lord 1806 (1805.036), also issued by Cottom & Stewart for John Gray, and their own Town and Country Almanack for 1806 (1805.038), with the exception of the word " Virginia " used on the title page in place of " Jefferson " or "Town and Country." With Gray attempting to market his Jefferson edition to Republicans in the area, this version was a non-partisan alternative.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Peter Cottom
  • John Gray
  • John Ainsworth Stewart

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