The daily courant.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Series:

17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers

Standardized Title:

Daily courant (London, England : London ed.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Newspapers.

London (England).

England--London.

Genre:

Newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Daily (except Sunday)

Numb. 1 (Wednesday, Mar. 11. 1702)-Numb. 6002 (Saturday, June 28, 1735).

Continued By:

Daily gazetteer (London, England : London ed.)

Place of Publication:

London : Sold by E[lizabeth]. Mallet, next door to the King's-Arms Tavern at Fleet-Bridge, 1702-1735.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Edited by Samuel Buckley (cf. NCBEL).

Imprint from colophon.

Imprint varies.

Issues No. 11-7032 (1702:May1-1724:May 5) are signed at head of title. Each month's issues are signed with the same letter.

Later issues include political attacks on The Craftsman.

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

Numb. 1 (Wednesday, Mar. 11. 1702); title from caption.

Numb. 6002 (Saturday, June 28, 1735).

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

Errors in numbering throughout, with a new sequence of numbering begining in Apr. 1732.

Consecutive numbers reissued jointly as a country edition (cf. NCBEL).

There are two issues numbered 100, 192, 201, 221, 281, 492, 571, 1193, 1493, 1605, 1621, 1637, 1705, 1760, 1828, 1831, 2042, 2085 (one of each possibly from the country edition?).

Numb. 118 includes supplemental second leaf: "A particular account of the fight at Luzara." There are occasional additional supplements during 1703 and 1707.

According to ODNB the Daily Courant was one of three main pro-government papers (the others being the London Journal and the Free Briton) which were combined to form the Daily Gazetteer in 1735 - Cf. ODNB (Richardson, Samuel); the London Journal, however, appears to continue after 1735.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1321

Times handlist, p. 35

Stewart, P. Brit. newspapers, 42

Contains:

Particular account of the fight at Luzara.

OCLC:

643154448

Access Restriction:

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