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Weekly Jamaica Courant
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Available from 1718 until 1722. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Newspaper
- Series:
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamaica--History--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v. )
- Weekly
- Began: May 27 1718. Cf. Pactor.
- Ceased in 1755. Cf. Lent
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
- Editor from 1718-1721: Robert Baldwin, who started the first press in Jamaica. Cf. McMurtrie.
- Imprint from colophon.
- Imprint varies.
- Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
- Note below title: Publish'd by authority.
- Price in square brackets follows imprint: Price one bit, or three half-crowns a quarter.
- No. 11 has chronological designation: Wednesday, August 5. 1718. In fact 5 Aug. 1718 was a Tuesday.
- Description based on: Numb. [X] (Wednesday, July 30, 1718); title from caption.
- Latest issue consulted: Numb. CCXXXV (Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1722)
- Cited in:
- Lent, J. A. Third world mass media and their search for modernity, p.326
- McMurtrie, D.C. First printing in Jamaica, p. 4-6
- Pactor, H.S. Brit. Carib. newspapers, 280
- OCLC:
- 643154872
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