The Desert to the True American.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Contributor:

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

American fiction.

American literature--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

American literature.

American poetry--Newspapers--Early works to 1800.

American poetry.

Genre:

Newspapers -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

v. ; 32 cm. (4⁰)

Weekly

No. 1. vol. I. (Saturday, July 14, 1798.)-

Ceased with v.2, no. 7 (19 Aug. 1799). Cf. Brigham.

Other Title:

Dessert to the True American 28 July 1798-

Continues:

Philadelphia minerva

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Samuel F. Bradford, editor & proprietor, [1798-

Notes:

Publisher: Samuel Bradford.

Title from caption; title spelling varies slightly.

Imprint from foot of p. [3]; imprint lacks printer's name and date.

Place of publication supplied by cataloger.

Later issues have publisher statement at end of text on p. [4].

Printed in three columns; subscription information supplied inside the paper, with title and issue date repeated at head of p. [3].

Microfilm. V.1 (May 1796-Apr. 1797). Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1942. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (American Periodicas series: Eighteenth Century ; reel 12, item 1).

A literary supplement to the True American and Commercial advertiser; includes selections of poetry, anecdotes, serial fiction, lists of marriages, death notices, and bills of mortality.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, p. 924

Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, p. 955

LC 18th cent. newspapers (1936 ed.), p. 226