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The Court and city magazine; or, Universal repository of knowledge and entertainment [electronic resource].
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1784 until 1784. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Satire, English.
- England--Social life and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- England.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v., plates )
- [Number 1 (1784)]-
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : printed for W. Wells, No.133, Fleet Street; B.Cornwall, No. 198, Fleet Street; G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey, and sold by all other booksellers, printsellers, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXXXIV- [1784]-
- Notes:
- Introduction notes that this is the first issue; at end: "To be continued".
- Includes two large copper plates, hand-colored, one of men vying for titles, while a person is handing them out;; the other shows men attacking the king with water guns.
- Dated from imprint.
- Text begins with factotum initial.
- Includes satirical articles on politics, society, and class; intends to expose customs and oddities of the time.
- Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
- Issue unnumbered.
- No more published?
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, P3322.
- OCLC:
- 508356765
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