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Parliamentary Spy
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1769 until 1770. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political satire, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Political satire, English.
- Genre:
- Periodicals
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v.)
- Weekly
- Number I. (Tuesday, November 21, 1769.)-
- Ceased with no. 23, 25 May 1770?
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Below title of each issue: To be continued regularly every Tuesday.
- Imprints vary.
- Some issues include satirical advertisements.
- At the end of the special issue (no. 23): "Tuesday morning [May 29] will be published number XXIV of this paper, which will contain Observations on the Minister's answer to the second City address, as read by His Majesty, Wednesday, May 23, 1770. Together with a short epistl addressed to the Princess Dowager of Wales". Apparently not published.
- Description based on: Number I. (Tuesday, November 21, 1769.); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Number XXIII. (Friday, May 25, 1770.).
- No. 23 appeared on Friday instead of Tuesday.
- No issue for Tuesday, 9 January 1770 (No. 8) published; no. 8 issued out of sequence on Saturday 27 January 1770.
- No issues known to have been published after no. 23.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1284
- OCLC:
- 643152494
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