The New Scots spy, or, Critical observer [electronic resource].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Williamson, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Scotland--Social life and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Scotland.

Genre:

Periodicals -- Scotland -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 v. )

Weekly

Number I.-Volume I. (Friday, August 29. 1777.)-number XII.-volume I. (Friday, November 14. 1777.).

Continues:

Scots spy, or Critical observer

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh [Scotland] : printed and sold by Peter Williamson, at his Penny-Post Office, front of the Exchange, M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]

Notes:

Edited by Peter Williamson.

Title from caption.

Title repeated as volume title on collected issues title page, issued with the first number.

Imprint from volume title page; individual issues lack imprint or colophon.

Issue number from head of title.

Note at end of no. 12 reads in part: "the sale [of the magazine] becomes every day more precarious. The publisher, there- [sic] therefore, ... is under the necessity of discontinuing this work ...".

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

No. 11 (7 Nov.) misdated: "September 7."

Collected issue title page lacks chronological designation.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1371

Craig, M.E. Scottish periodicals, p.101

English Short Title Catalog, P2937.

OCLC:

609597019