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The Meddler.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1744 until 1744. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Ireland--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Theater.
- Ireland--Social life and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- Ireland -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (26 v. )
- Weekly
- Vol. I. Numb. I Thursday, January the 5th, 1743-4.-vol. I. numb. 26 Thursday, June the 28th, 1744.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin [Ireland] : printed for Peter Wilson, at Gay's Head in Dames-Street, where subscriptions and advertisements for this paper are taken in, [1744]
- Notes:
- Editorship attributed to: William Rufus Chetwood (cf. NCBEL).
- Title from caption.
- Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates.
- Year of publication from dates of issues; some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
- Text of each number headed by a quotation from the classics.
- Printed in two columns.
- Satiric essays on manners and society, written in contrast to The Censor, brief comments on European news, publishing and theatrical advertisements, selections of poetry.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Numbers to follow announced in each issue; no more known to have been published.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1378
- Munter, Handlist of Irish newspapers, 139
- Crane & Kaye, 433
- English Short Title Catalog, P2506.
- OCLC:
- 508356527
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