Fredericksburg Almanack for 1811 (Cottom & Stewart).

• imprint_number: 1810.056
• title: The Fredericksburg Almanack for the year of our Lord, 1811. Being the 3d. after bissextile, or leap year, and the 35th of American Independence.
• sequence_number: 56
• year: 1810
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Cottom & Stewart
• author: Sharp, Joshua.
• notes: Imprint states: "Printed by Cottom & Stewart, for William F. Gray, Fredericksburg." Gray had recently established an independent business in Fredericksburg after working for Timothy Green and Cottom & Stewart alike; his new bookstore evidently replaced Cottom & Stewart's there when that Alexandria firm contracted to its base in 1810.
  This title was one of three essentially identical almanacs published by Cottom & Stewart for 1811; it was their regular practice to issue a common base almanac with interchangeable title pages, targeting three distinct locales in Virginia, here for Alexandria (1810.054), for Petersburg (1810.055), and for Fredericksburg (this item); this series was the first in which the non-Alexandria editions were not produced for a Cottom & Stewart branch store, as their partnership was due to expire in 1811, and would do so.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Peter Cottom
  • Col. William Fairfax Gray
  • John Ainsworth Stewart

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