British Apollo

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Smith, Marshal, fl.1708-1718, ed.

Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750, ed.

Garth, Samuel, Sir, 1661-1719, attributed name.

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735, attributed name.

Gay, John, 1685-1732, attributed name.

Series:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Questions and answers--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Questions and answers.

Poetry, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Poetry, English.

Theology--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Genre:

Periodicals

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. ) music

Three times a week, 26 Dec. 1709-11 May 1711

[Vol. I.] Numb. 1. (Friday February 13th. 1708.)-Vol. IV. Numb. 20. (Wednesday May 9th. to Friday May 11th. 1711.).

Notes:

Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).

Edited by Aaron Hill and Marshall Smith, with probable contributions from John Gay, John Arbuthnot and Samuel Garth, among others. Cf. McLeod; Belcher.

Imprint from undated colophon.

Imprints vary; bookseller J[ohn]. Morphew added to v. 4 imprints.

Vol. 4 issues printed on single folio half-sheet.

Vol. 1, no. 4 in two settings with different advertisements.

Collected annually with an added collective title page and prefatory material; collections based on Lady Day dating for the new year.

Questions & answers on miscellaneous topics: theology, science, mathematics, medicine, customs, manners, etc. Includes foreign news, etc. A rival to John Dunton's Athenian news.

Description based on: [Vol. I.] Numb. 1. (Friday February 13th. 1708.); title from caption.

Latest issue consulted: Vol. IV. Numb. 20. (Wednesday May 9th. to Friday May 11th. 1711.).

Volume designation on individual issues begins with vol. 2.

Vol. II, no. 1 (30 Mar. 1709) misdated 1708; Lady Day dating begins the new year on March 25th.

Vol. 1 includes monthly Supernumary paper, no. 1-12 (Apr. 1708-Mar. 1709) and Quarterly paper no. 1-2; v. 2 includes monthly Supernumary paper, no. 1-9 (Apr.-Dec. 1709) and Quarterly paper, no. 1-3. Supplement title: The British Apollo.

Finding Aid/Index:

Annual cumulations include indexes.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1321

Times handlist, p.36

McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p.3-4

Crane & Kaye, 60

Goldsmiths', 37332

Belcher, W. Sale and distribution of the British Apollo(In: Bond, R. Studies in the Early English Periodical. Chapel Hill: 1957)

OCLC:

643154359