Observator (London, England : 1704)

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Author/Creator:

Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722., Author.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Standardized Title:

Observator (London, England : 1704)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious controversy--Great Britain--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Religious controversy.

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

Great Britain.

Genre:

Periodicals

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v. )

Semiweekly

Numb. 1 (From Wednesday August the 2d, to Saturday August the 5th, 1704.).

Other Title:

Observator

Continued By:

Rehearsal of Observator, &c.

Notes:

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

Editor and principal author: Charles Leslie.

Title from caption.

Contents note below title.

Imprint from colophon.

Collected, with added preliminaries and index, together with its 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].

In two known states; state 1: "Numb. 1.", with catchword "Best"; state 2: "Numb.", lacking the number and with catchword "Country-m.".

Charles Leslie, a Tory and Jacobite sympathizer, wrote this and its 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.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1344

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

OCLC:

643158764