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     Bickerstaff's is a name that can be traced back to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) of Gulliver's Travels fame.  He created the fictious astrologer and almanac maker "Isaac Bickerstaff" in the early 1700s. 
     Capitalizing on the popularity of the character, Richard Steele (1672-1729) appropriated Isaac Bickerstaff as his pseudonym as editor of the English periodical, The Tatler. 
     The Bickerstaff name came to America in the second half of the 18th century when Benjamin West (1730-1818), mathematician and professor at Brown University, adopted the pseudonym as the author of several series of successful almanacs in New England.  It is from that most recent incarnation that Bickerstaff's Books, Maps &c. draws its inspiration.  It's a pseudonym we proudly carry forward into a new century.

                                           Isaac Bickerstaff
                                           (for Stephen Hanly)
 
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