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Stamford Mercury (1713)
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1714 until 1906. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Standardized Title:
- Stamford Mercury (1713)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stamford (England)--Newspapers.
- Stamford (England).
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. ) ill. (woodcut)
- Weekly
- Began in 1713; ceased 13 July 1732? Cf. Wiles; NCBEL.
- Other Title:
- Stamford Mercury
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Some issues lack sub-title.
- Imprint varies.
- Woodcut below title; each volume has different woodcut.
- Below imprint: Price three half-pence.
- One of the two oldest provincial papers in Lincolnshire; driven out of business by: Howgrave's Stamford Mercury, in 1732. Although the second title is sometimes considered to be a continuation of the first, they were competitors. Cf. Wiles, Cranfield.
- Later issues include bills of mortality and the printers' list of new books above imprint on title page.
- Description based on: Vol. V. no. 16 (Thursday, April 21. 1715)
- Latest issue consulted: Vol. XXXII no.25 (Thursday December 26)
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1367
- Times handlist, p. 21
- Cranfield, 114
- Wiles, Freshest Advices, 135
- OCLC:
- 643154304
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