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Adams's Weekly Courant
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1770 until 1782. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chester (England)--Newspapers.
- Chester (England).
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. )
- Weekly
- Began 29. Nov. 1732. Cf. NEWSPLAN
- Ceased in 1793?
- Continued By:
- Chester courant
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Subtitle dropped by April 1770.
- Imprint from undated colophon.
- Imprint varies.
- Weeks of each quarter(?) in roman numerals to left of title.
- Price on date line in later issues.
- Description based on: Numb. 279 (Wednesday, March 22, to Wednesday, March 29, 1738); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Vol. L. No. 2553 (Tuesday. January 22, 1782)
- Title change is speculative; reference sources record subsequent title as: The Chester courant and Anglo Welsh gazette, however libraries holding this title appear to have no issues earlier than 1801. The Beinecke Library at Yale has issues of The Chester courant for 1795-1798.
- Quarter and volume numbering continue until the 1790s.
- Issue numbering is somewhat irregular.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1355
- Times handlist, p. 44
- Cranfield, G.A. Provincial newspapers, 22
- Wiles, R.M. Freshest advices, 28
- NEWSPLAN. Northwestern, p. 57
- OCLC:
- 643152693
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