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The world : By Adam Fitz-Adam.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1755 until 1756. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Standardized Title:
- World (London, England : 1753 : Annual : Dublin, Ireland ed.).
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Periodicals--Early works to 1900.
- Conduct of life.
- Human behavior--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Human behavior.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Card games--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Card games.
- Fashion--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Fashion.
- Actors--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Actors.
- English literature--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English literature.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- Ireland -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 v. )
- Annual (collected issues)
- Volume the first. [no. 1. Thursday, January the 4th. 1753.-no. 52. Thursday, December the 27th. 1753]-
- Ceased with vol. 4 [no. 157-209, Jan.-Dec. 1756].
- Edition:
- [Dublin, Ireland ed.]
- Other Title:
- World
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin [Ireland] : printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-street, [1755-1756]
- Notes:
- Reprint of collected issues: Originally published London: Dodsley & Cooper, 1753-1756.
- Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor.
- Additional significant contributors include: the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, Horace Walpole (who also wrote the concluding supplement: A World Extraordinary), Soame Jenyns, Edward Lovibond, John Boyle the Earl of Orrery and Cork, his son the Hon. Hamilton Boyle, and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Forty-one of the 209 papers have no assigned author.
- Imprint includes year of publication in roman.
- With printer's ornament on title page.
- Title, issue number and date of weekly issue appear as caption on each issue.
- Issue number appears again on running title line.
- With continuous pagination.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Volumes lack chronological designation.
- Cited in:
- Winship, G. "Printing history of the World" in: Bond, R.P. Studies in the Early English Periodical
- NCBEL, II:1281
- English Short Title Catalog, P6695.
- OCLC:
- 508378136
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