Rehearsal of Observator

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722, ed.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious tolerance--Controversial literature--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Religious tolerance.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1702-1714--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Periodicals

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 v. )

Weekly

Numb. 2 (From Saturday August the 5th, to Saturday August the 12th, 1704.)-Numb.50 (Saturday July the 7th, to Saturday July the 14th. 1705.).

Continues:

Observator (London, England : 1704 : Leslie)

Continued By:

Rehearsal

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Editor and principal author: Charles Leslie.

Title from caption.

Imprint from colophon.

Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.

Contents note below title.

Collected, with added preliminaries and index, together with its preceding and succeeding titles as: A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the first volume of the Rehearsals. By Philalethes. London : printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCVIII [1708].

Charles Leslie, a Tory and Jacobite sympathizer, wrote this and its preceding and succeeding titles in response to the Whig papers: John Tutchin's Observator and Daniel Defoe's, Review of the affairs of France. His Jacobite views led him into exile in 1710.

Ten issues at least known to be in two editions, the second of which has the same title as that of the succeeding title, 'Rehearsal': no. 2, 4, 7, 10, 12-13, 16, 28 (with the date corrected to "1704/5").

Numbering continues from preceding title.

Issue dating for no. 28 given as Feb. 3d, "1703", in error for 1705.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1344

McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 46-47

OCLC:

643154318