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Jesting Astrologer or The Merry Observator
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1701 until 1701. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fortune-telling--Humor--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Fortune-telling.
- Astrology--Humor--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Astrology.
- Satire, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Satire, English.
- Genre:
- Periodicals
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 v. )
- Weekly
- Numb. 17 (From February the 17th, to February the 24th. [1701])-Numb. 18 (From February the 24th, to March the 3d. [1701]).
- Continues:
- Infallible astrologer: or, Mr. Silvester Partrige's prophesie
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Imprint from colophon.
- Satirical predictions used to describe social customs and behavior.
- Decription based on: Numb. 17 (From February the 17th, to February the 24th. [1701]); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Numb. 18 (From February the 24th, to March the 3d. [1701]).
- Issue numbering continues from previous title.
- Issue dates lack year of coverage.
- No more published (Cf. NCBEL)..
- Cited in:
- Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 197*
- NCBEL, II:1343
- Times handlist, p. 34
- Crane & Kaye, p. 1444
- OCLC:
- 643155401
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