The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine; or, Monthly political and literary censor.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Gifford, John, 1758-1818, Author.

Bisset, Andrew, active 1798-1810, Author.

Whitaker, John, 1735-1808., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809--Controversial literature--Periodicals.

Paine, Thomas.

Voltaire, 1694-1778--Controversial literature--Periodicals.

Voltaire.

Democracy in literature--Controversial literature--Periodicals.

Democracy in literature.

English literature--19th century--Book reviews--Periodicals.

English literature.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1789-1820--Periodicals.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Periodicals -- England -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

35 v. , plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Three times a year (cumulative)

Vol. I (July to December, (inclusive,) 1798)-Volume XXXV. (January to April, inclusive. 1810.).

Other Title:

Anti-Jacobin review and magazine

Anti jacobin review and magazine

Monthly political and literary censor

Continued By:

Antijacobin review, and true churchman's magazine; or, monthly, political, and literary censor

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed, for the proprietors, by J[ohn]. Plymsell. And published, by J[ames]. Whittle, at the Anti-Jacobin office, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and by C[lement]. Chapple, no. 66, Pall Mall, 1799-1810.

Notes:

Title spelling varies slightly.

Edited and written by "John Gifford", i.e. John Richards Green; one of the most important contributing editors was Andrew Bisset; another important contributor was John Whitaker. Cf. NCBEL; DNB.

Imprint names vary; later volumes include: T[homas]. Crowder, G[eorge]. Sidney, printers; J[ames]. Whittle, G. Cradock, publishers; C[lement]. Chapple, bookseller in London; T. Pierson, Birmingham, Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, Brash and Reid, Glasgow, J. Milliken, Dublin, and W. Cobbett, New York, booksellers.

Below v. 1 imprint in parentheses: "Embellished with plates."

Each cumulative volume includes contents, lists of authors and titles, and an Appendix, "containing an ample review of foreign literature".

Designed to follow the example of William Gifford's: Anti-jacobin; or, Weekly examiner, as an attack on democrats, radicals, Catholics, Irish independence, and French ideas; includes anti-democratic cartoons, reviews of plays, books and politics.

Individual issues have chronological designation only; cumulative volumes have volume and number on direction line of each issue.

Each volume indexed.

Continued in May 1810 by: The Antijacobin review, and true churchman's magazine; or, Monthly, political, and literary censor.

Cumulates, with added prefatory material, the monthly issues of: The Anti-Jacobin review and magazine.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum has: Vol. I (1798) - vol. XI (1802).

OCLC:

6696019