Country common-sense.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wool industry--Great Britain--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Wool industry.

Social policy--England--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Social policy.

History.

Great Britain--History--George II, 1727-1760--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

England.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; (16 cm) 12⁰

Part I. [Number I.-VII.]-part III. [number XVIII.-number XXV.]

Other Title:

Country common sense

Place of Publication:

Gloucester [England] printed : and sold by A. Dodd, near Temple-Bar, London; W. Evans, and J. Wilson, in Bristol; J. Leake in Bath; W. Norris in Taunton; E. Easton in Salisbury; E. Wolley in Worcester; and P. Hodges in Hereford, [1739]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Written by: "a gentleman of Wilts".

Title and individual issue numbers repeated as running title.

Imprints and places of publication vary: pts. 2-3 printed in London: "for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch" and "sold by A. Dodd".

Imprints do not include year of publication; added in MS. to pt. 1 of copy cataloged.

Title pages include contents list.

Price below imprint in square brackets.

With consecutive pagination and signatures.

First seven numbers discuss the wool trade; later issues deal with various aspects of political and social life, suggesting improvements to government policies.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Issues and collected volumes lack chronological designations or dates.

Note to the reader in pt. I. suggests that the essays were individually written, but not individually published after no. 2.

Collected essays; no. 1-2 originally published biweekly in: 'The Gloucester journal' in 1738.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1348

Crane & Kaye, 1164

Times handlist, p. 219

Cranfield, G.A. Engl. provincial newsp., 133

English Short Title Catalog, P2963.

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