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Plymouth Weekly Journal Or General Post
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1718 until 1723. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plymouth (England)--Newspapers.
- Plymouth (England).
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. )
- Weekly
- Began 3 January 1718? Ceased in 1725? Cf. NCBEL.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Title page has cuts of Plymouth arms and Mercury bracketing title words.
- Title repeated as caption at head of first page of text.
- Imprints lack dates; first year of publication from reference sources.
- Imprints vary; later issues published by Elizabeth Kent.
- Dates of coverage given on title pages; issue number from head of title.
- Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
- Below imprint: Price three half-pence.
- Each issue with separate pagination.
- Description based on: No. 36. (From Friday, August 29, to Friday Sept. 5. 1718.).
- Latest issue consulted: Vol. I. no. 119. (From Friday Dec. 27 [1723], to Friday Jan. 3. 1723 [i.e. 1724].).
- Numbering irregular; sequences beginning with "Vol. I" or "Numb. 1" appearing on several occasions.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1364
- Bibl. of Brit. Newsp. Cornwall & Devon, p. 97
- Times handlist, p. 218
- Cranfield, G.A. Provincial newspapers, 99
- Wiles, R.M. Freshest advices, 116
- OCLC:
- 643155524
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