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Monitor, or The British freeholder (London, England : 1755)
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1755 until 1762. Available online
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- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Standardized Title:
- Monitor, or The British freeholder (London, England : 1755)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Newspapers.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. )
- Weekly
- Number I (Saturday, August the 9th, 1755)-Number DIV (Saturday, March the 30th, 1765)
- Other Title:
- Monitor, or The British freeholder
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Written and edited by John Shebbeare and John Entick, attacking the government of the day; sometimes attributed to William Beckford.
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Imprint varies.
- Below issue number: To be continued every Saturday. Price two pence.
- Woodcut vignette above title of each issue.
- No. 78 (18 Jan. 1757) has sub-title: On the present scarcity and abuse of corn.
- Description based on: Number I (Saturday, August the 9th, 1755); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Number DIV (Saturday, March the 30th, 1765)
- With running pagination.
- Publication suspended from Nov. 6-27, 1762, because of the imprisonment of the editors and publishers.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1281
- Times handlist, p. 42
- OCLC:
- 643154295
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