The Calcutta monthly register, or, India repository, of instruction and entertainment.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

McKenly, Henry, comp.

Alefounder, John, d. 1795, ill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

India.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Asia--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Periodicals -- India -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates ) maps, ports., ;

Monthly

Vol. I. No. I. November, 1790.-

Other Title:

Calcutta monthly register, or, India repository,

Place of Publication:

Calcutta [India] : printed for the compiler, by C[harles]. L[ewis]. Vogel, at the India Gazette press, M.DCC.XC. [1790]-

Notes:

Collected semiannually

Compiler: Lieutenant Henry McKenly (cf. Shaw).

Frontis. = plates, from paintings by John Alefounder (cf. Shaw).

Wrapper title page includes table of contents and note on the plate.

Title and designation repeated as caption at head of first page of text.

Issue numbering is consecutive, volume to volume.

Includes lists of company and military staff in Bengal, summaries of the month's events, social news including births, marriages, deaths and preferments of the European community, descriptions of Asian countries and places, announcements of arrivals and departures from India, and general information useful to British residents such as prices, local holidays, Indian weights and measures.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Occasional issues lack volume numbers.

No more published?

Cited in:

Shaw, G. Printing in Calcutta, p. 67-68, 222

English Short Title Catalog, P2425.

OCLC:

642234368