The Crisis.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Moore, William, publisher, attributed author.

Shaw, T. W., printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792--Public opinion--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

North, Frederick.

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Pitt, William.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

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

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Propaganda--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

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

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Propaganda--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

91 v. ; 35 cm (2⁰)

Weekly

Number I. (Friday, January 20, 1775.)-number XCI. (Saturday, October 12, 1776.).

Other Title:

Crisis, during the present bloody civil war in America no. 51- >

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Printed and published for the authors, by T. W. Shaw, in Fleet-Street, opposite Anderton's Coffee House, where letters to the publisher will be thankfully received, [1775-1776]

Notes:

Editorship attributed to William Moore, author of the Whisperer, using various pseudonyms (cf. NCBEL).

Title from caption.

Some issues have headlines above text which appear as distinctive titles.

Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates.

Years of publication from dates of issues.

Text of most issues begins with factotum initial; from no. 20 initial enclosed by motto: "Auro-Libertas-Pretiosior".

Following issue number: To be continued weekly.

Note on date line: Price two-pence halfpenny.

No. 81 (3 Aug. 1776) has note following issue number: To be continued every Saturday, during the present bloody civil war in America.

Pagination continuous from issue to issue, including the supplement.

Includes strident attacks on Lord North's ministry for his North American policies; laments the political defeat of William Pitt.

First number apparently reissued on Saturday, Jan. 21, 1775.

From no. 2, published on Saturdays.

No. 7 appears to be misdated or dated according to date of composition, as it repeats the date of no. 5 (18 Feb. 1775), but should have been dated 4 Mar. 1775; no. 6 date is 25 Feb. 1775.

No more published.

Has unnumbered supplement: The Crisis. Extraordinary. (Wednesday, August 9, 1775).

Microfilm. No.1-91 (1775:Jan.20-1776:Oct.12). Marlborough, Wilts. Adam Matthew Publications, Ltd. 2000. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Eighteenth Century Journals ; reel 10 : item 12).

Reprinted in London and in the American colonies, with individual issues appearing as octavo pamphlets; descriptions of these publications appear in Evans (no. 13896-13996).

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1285

Crane and Kaye, 153

Times handlist, p. 44

Contains:

Crisis. Extraordinary.