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Format:

Journal/Periodical

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anecdotes--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Anecdotes.

Prose literature--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Prose literature.

Poetry, Modern--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Poetry, Modern.

England.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 17 cm (12⁰)

Vol. I. Prose. Vol. I. Poetry [1797]

Place of Publication:

[Maidenhead, England] : Printed for the editor, and sold at the circulating library, Maidenhead; by Matthews, Strand, London; Snare and Co., Reading; Fuller, Newbury; Knight, Windsor, &c. &c., MDCCXCVII. [1797]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Published in two sections, with titles "Prose" and "Poetry".

Title repeated as running title in the prose volume.

Imprint from the Prose title page; the Poetry issue differs slightly by adding "Poole, Abingdon" as the last bookseller's name.

Prose and poetry numbers separately paginated.

With a subscribers' list.

Prose issue consists of brief selections and anecdotes to illustrate moral or virtuous behavior intended to influence the young; it includes a "Prospectus" paginated with the rest of the issue.

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 undated; each part designated "Vol. I" so it is not possible to determine whether they were published simultaneously or successively.

No more known to have been published.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1351

BUCP, I:319

Crane & Kaye, 48

Ward, W. S. Index of British Serials, p. 15

English Short Title Catalog, P6170.

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