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The birch : Humbly dedicated to the magistrates of the city of Oxford.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1795 until 1796. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal government--Oxford--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Municipal government.
- Elections--Oxford--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Elections.
- Oxford (England)--History--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Oxford (England).
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5 v. )
- Irregular, No. 5 (June 1796)
- No. I. (May 1, 1795.)-no. V. (June, 1796).
- Other Title:
- Birch
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] : printed for the author; and may be had of the booksellers, 1795-1796.
- Notes:
- Signed at end of each issue: "Academicus".
- Title repeated as caption on first page of text.
- Imprints include year of publication.
- Issue number from head of title; reapeated as "Number ..." on first page of text in each issue.
- Issue dates from first page of text.
- Extended title varies; on no. 5: Addressed to the citizens of Oxford.
- Author of no. 1-4 publicly denied authorship of no. 5, but a MS. purporting to be the original of no. 5 is bound with the possibly spurious issue (cf. British Library).
- Essays on various problems with civic authority, and with no. 5 discusses electoral responsibility; title seems to refer to an instrument of punishment.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1364
- Crane & Kaye, 1894
- Times handlist, p. 221
- Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 16
- English Short Title Catalog, P6306.
- OCLC:
- 508356932
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