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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1754 until 1755. Available online
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- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Social life and customs--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- England.
- Genre:
- Periodicals
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 v. )
- Weekly
- Number I. (Tuesday, December 31. 1754.)-Number II. (Tuesday, January 7, 1754. [i.e. 1755]).
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- 'Valentine Veteran' is a pseudonym.
- Title from caption.
- Title repeated as running title, with issue number in arabic.
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Above date line: To be continued every Tuesday.
- Following imprint in square brackets: Price two-pence.
- Headpiece is cut of Neptune standing in a harbour between a city skyline and a sailing ship.
- No. 2 dated according to Lady Day dating.
- Reflective essays, with verse, on society and manners.
- No more published.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1281
- Times handlist, p. 42
- OCLC:
- 508356699
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