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Connoisseur (Collected Issues)
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1754 until 1756. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Colman, George, 1732-1794, Author.
- Thornton, Bonnell, 1724-1768, Author.
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English literature.
- London (England)--Social life and customs--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 v. )
- Weekly
- Number I. (Thursday, January 31, 1754.)-Number CXL. (Thursday, September 30, 1756.).
- Other Title:
- Connoisseur
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Editors: George Colman, Bonnell Thornton and others. Mr. Town is a pseudonym.
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Running title line includes issue number in arabic.
- With continuous pagination and register.
- Collected every seventy issues with added title page; vol. 1 covers the period 31 January 1754 to 29 May 1755 and vol. 2 covers the period 5 June 1755 to 30 September 1756.
- There are two settings of no. 50 (9 January 1755).
- With numerous reprints from the same and other publishers.
- Description based on: Number I. (Thursday, January 31, 1754.); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Number CXL. (Thursday, September 30, 1756.).
- With some errors in pagination.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1281
- Times handlist, p. 42
- Stewart, P. Brit. newspapers, 27
- Bodleian newspapers, p. 25
- OCLC:
- 83521763
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