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The Sailors advocate : To be continued.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available from 1728 until 1728. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Sailors.
- Impressment--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Impressment.
- Merchant marine--Manning of vessels--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Merchant marine.
- Naval deserters--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Naval deserters.
- Great Britain--Royal Navy--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 v. )
- Numb. 1.-Number. IV
- Other Title:
- Sailors advocate.
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : printed for H. Whitridge, under the Royal-Exchange; and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, and the principal towns in Great-Britain, [1728?]
- Notes:
- Title repeated as caption on no. 1 only; later numbers lack caption titles.
- No. 2 has half title, with issue no.
- Imprint of no. 1 lacks date; imprint of no. 2 dated: 1728.
- Imprints vary; no. 2 has imprint reading in part: "printed for A. Moore"; the imprint name is fictitious.
- Below imprint in square brackets: "Price six pence".
- Issue number for no. 1 taken from head of A2; later issue numbers on title pages, repeated at head of first page of text.
- Issues have individual pagination and signatures.
- Includes essays and commentary against pressing and mistreating sailors as damaging to the strength, capability and prestige of the Royal Navyand the merchant service. No. 2 includes reprint of 1707 pamphlet: "An enquiry into the causes of our naval miscarriages."
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- No. 1 and 4 have appendices.
- First issue lacks title page designation.
- Issues lack chronological designation.
- No more published.
- Cited in:
- Goldsmith's lib. cat., 37719
- Hanson, 3852
- Sabin, 74972
- Treadwell, M. "Of false and misleading imprints," in: Fakes and frauds (1989), p. 41
- English Short Title Catalog, P2832.
- Contains:
- Enquiry into the causes of our naval miscarriages.
- OCLC:
- 642234544
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