The Country spectator [electronic resource].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Middleton, T. F. (Thomas Fanshawe), 1769-1822, ed.

Standardized Title:

Country spectator (Gainsborough, England : 1792 : Weekly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural life--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Rural life.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Periodicals -- 18th century -- England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. )

Began with: Number I. (Tuesday, 9 Oct. 1792).

-Number XXXIII. (Tuesday, 21 May, 1793.)

Other Title:

Country spectator

Place of Publication:

Gainsborough [England] : printed by Mozley and Co. for the author, and sold by Messers. [Thomas] Hookham and [James] Carpenter, Bond-street, London, [1793]

Notes:

Collected at end of publication in one volume by: The country spectator.

Originator and editor: Thomas Fanshawe Middleton, with contributions from the Rev. D.H. Urguhart, the Rev. G. Smith and James Stovin.

Issued in wrappers.

Imprint from wrapper; wrapper lacks date.

Last year of publication from dates of issues.

Below imprint: "Of whom may be had particular nos. or complete sets."

Note from wrapper title: "Intended chiefly to illustrate the manners, characters and amusements, exhibited in rural life."

Issue number from wrapper, repeated below caption title.

"Price twopence" from wrapper.

Last issue includes title page, half-title, dedication and contents for the collected issues.

Includes personal essays, some offering moral or philosophical contrasts between country and city life.

Description based on: Number XXX. (Tuesday, 30 April, 1793.); title from caption.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Wrappers lack chronological designation.

No more published.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1348

Times handlist, p. 220

Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 38

English Short Title Catalog, P6225.

OCLC:

508356908