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Jacobite's Journal
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1747 until 1748. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754, Author.
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satire, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Satire, English.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 v. ) ill. (woodcut)
- Weekly
- Numb. 1. (Saturday, December 5, 1747.)-Numb. 49. (Saturday, November 5, 1748.).
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Edited by Henry Fielding; "John Trott-Plaid" is a pseudonym (cf. NCBEL).
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Imprint varies.
- Nos. 1-12 have woodcut below title, showing John Trott-Plaid and his wife riding on a donkey, led by a friar, with a panorama of London in the background.
- Much of the text is satirical, but includes domestic and foreign news, bankrupts, stock prices and publishers' advertisements.
- Description based on: Numb. 1. (Saturday, December 5, 1747.); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Numb. 49. (Saturday, November 5, 1748.).
- No. 7-33 include "Proceedings at the Court of criticism."
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1279
- NCBEL, II:1332
- Times handlist, p. 41
- OCLC:
- 643152464
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