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Porcupine's Political censor, [electronic resource] : for ...
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1796 until 1797. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1812--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- France--Foreign relations--United States--Public opinion--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- France.
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809--Public opinion--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Paine, Thomas.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. )
- Monthly
- Began in: Nov. 1796; ceased with: Apr. 1797.
- Other Title:
- Porcupine's Political censor,
- Continues:
- Political censor, or Monthly review
- Continued By:
- Porcupine's gazette, or United States daily advertiser
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia [Penn.] : published by William Cobbett, opposite Christ's church, [1796-1797]
- Notes:
- Some individual issues reprinted several times.
- Replaced after the April issue by Cobbett's daily paper, begun in Mar. 1797: "Proposals, by William Cobbett .. for publishing a news-paper, to be entitled Porcupine's gazette and daily advertiser." (from a note in the Dec. 1796 issue).
- 'Peter Porcupine' = William Cobbett.
- Some issues include half-title with date of issue.
- Title pages include contents note or table of contents.
- Imprints do not include date; years of publication from dates of issues.
- "Price, one quarter of a dollar" below imprint.
- Includes reports and commentary on the political situation in the United States. Author is anti-democratic, anti-French, anti-Thomas Paine.
- Issues have individual signatures.
- Description based on: March 1797.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Monthly issues unnumbered; chronological designation only.
- No issue published in Feb. 1797.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 30219
- Evans, 30221
- Evans, 30223
- Evans, 30225
- Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 13a
- Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 14a-b
- Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 17a-b
- Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 20a
- Evans, 30226
- Evans, 30227
- Sabin, 14004
- English Short Title Catalog, P6085.
- OCLC:
- 508356879
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