The new election budget.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire, English--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

Satire, English.

Political campaigns--England--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

Political campaigns.

Elections--England--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

Elections.

Norfolk (England)--History--18th century--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

Norfolk (England).

Beevor, Thomas, 1726-1814.

Beevor, Thomas.

[Hobart, Henry, Sir].

[Hobart, Henry.

Genre:

Newspapers -- England -- 18th century.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v. )

Number I.-number XXV. [Sept. 1786]

Place of Publication:

Norwich [England] : printed by J. Crouse and W. Stevenson, [1786]

Notes:

First issue has title page; title and issue number repeated as caption on each issue.

Title page includes description of publishing plan, and sentence beginning: "This work will be continued as the advocates for each candidate ... [exhibit] fresh marks of ingenuity ...."

Imprint lacks date; year of publication from internal evidence.

Issues after number one lack imprint; most issues have statement at end of text: "To be continued"; from no. 12, colophon reads: "A letter-box in the Coffee-house (Johnson's) Passage."

Date of last number from end of text.

Issue numbers at head of caption titles.

Printed in two columns headed "Hobart" and "Beevor", with continuous text under each heading, catchwords, and continuous pagination.

Collected newsletters, published as often as every day or two, with satiric support and criticism of local parliamentary candidates. Issues include correspondence, some fictitious, poetry, and both serious and satiric commentary on the candidates: Thomas Beevor and Sir Henry Hobart.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Issues lack chronological designation; frequency of publication inferred by cataloger from textual information.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, P6433.

OCLC:

642235073