The Observator.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722, author.

Series:

17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers

Standardized Title:

Observator (London, England : 1704)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious controversy--Great Britain--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Religious controversy.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 volume.

Semiweekly

Numb. 1 (From Wednesday August the 2d, to Saturday August the 5th, 1704.).

Other Title:

Collected with added title page: View of the times, their principles and practices Vol. 1, 1708

Burney Collection

Continued By:

Rehearsal of Observator, &c.

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1704-1709.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Charles Leslie, a Tory and Jacobite sympathizer, wrote this and its succeeding titles in response to the Whig papers: John Tutchin's Observator and Daniel Defoe's, Review of the affairs of France. His Jacobite views led him into exile in 1710.

Collected, with added preliminaries and index, together with its succeeding titles as: A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the first volume of the Rehearsals. By Philalethes. London : printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCVIII [1708].

Contents note below title.

Editor and principal author: Charles Leslie.

Imprint from colophon.

In two known states; state 1: "Numb. 1.", with catchword "Best"; state 2: "Numb.", lacking the number and with catchword "Country-m.".

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Title from caption.

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

Local Notes:

Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Cited in:

McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 46-47

NCBEL, II:1344

OCLC:

643158764

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