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The Athenian gazette, or, Casuistical mercury : resolving weekly all the most nice and curious questions propos'd by the ingenious.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection Folio AP3 .A84 v.1 (1690/91:Mar.17)-v.5:no.30 (1691/92) v.1-5
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- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English essays--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- English essays.
- English essays--Early modern.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1689-1702--Periodicals.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 volumes ; 32 cm (folio)
- Semiweekly, Mar. 8, 1692-June 14, 1697
- Vol. 1, no. 1 (Mar. 17, 1690 [i.e. 1691])-v. 20, numb. 10 (June 14, 1697).
- Other Title:
- Casuistical mercury
- Athenian mercury
- Fingerprint:
- evEv afth itse hiFa (3) 1690/91 (A)
- Continued By:
- Athenian oracle
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Dunton, 1690 [that is, 1691]-1697.
- Notes:
- Individual numbers, after vol. 1, no. 1, have caption title: The Athenian mercury.
- Description based on: [Vol. 1], numb. 2 (Mar. 24, 1690 [i.e. 1691]); title from volume title page.
- Subtitle varies.
- Mainly the work of John Dunton, assisted by R. Sault, and Samuel Wesley, the elder.
- Vol. 7, no. 25 skipped in numbering.
- Publication suspended, Feb. 8, 1696-May 14, 1697.
- Supplements with v. 1-5. Supplement with v. 5 includes Letter to the Athenian society and Ode to the Athenian society by Jonathan Swift.
- Reprinted in part, and continued, in part, by: Athenian oracle.
- Local Notes:
- In University of Pennsylvania Libraries Rare Book Teerinck: imperfect: preface pages to v. 1, mutilated with significant loss of text. Have v.1-5
- In Penn Libraries Rare collection have v.1-8 (in 1).Also, some notes by previous owner inserted.
- Penn Libraries Rare collection copy bound with: Gildon, Charles. The history of the Athenian Society. London : Printed for James Dowley, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1692] (Item 2 of 2)
- OCLC:
- 1518521
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