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Free Briton
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1731 until 1733. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Newspapers.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 v. )
- Weekly
- Numb.I (Thursday, December 4, 1729)-Numb.CCXCIV (Thursday, June 26. 1735)
- Continued By:
- Daily gazetteer (London, England : London ed.)
- Summary:
- Political essays in support of Walpole, and hostile to the point of view expressed by the Craftsman and Occasional writer among others. The Free Briton extraordinary, no. 172, 12 Mar. 1732, appeared in answer to commentary in the Craftsman (24 Feb. 1732) on the recent parliamentary by-election in Chester.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- 'Francis Walsingham' = William Arnall.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Below imprint in brackets: Price two pence.
- Special issues reprinted as pamphlets, including: The Free Briton extraordinary, reprinted in London and Dublin; and numb. 50, which was expanded into a 36p. pamphlet and published separately in 1730.
- Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
- Format varies, most issues printed on one leaf only.
- Description based on: Numb.I (Thursday, December 4, 1729); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Numb. CCXCIV (Thursday, June 26. 1735).
- No. 129-130 both incorrectly numbered "131"; no. 262 repeated in numbering.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1278
- Times handlist, p. 40
- Notes & queries, 1935:Sept.7, p. 166-168
- Goldsmith's Lib. cat., 37429
- OCLC:
- 643155028
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