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The Independent reflector: or, Weekly essays on sundry important subjects.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1752 until 1753. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, William, 1723-1790. [Preface to:]The Independent reflector: or, Weekly essays on sundry important subjects., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics--New York (State)--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Politics.
- Moral reform--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Moral reform.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- New York (State) -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 v. )
- [1752:Nov.30-1753:Nov.22]
- Other Title:
- Independent reflector
- Place of Publication:
- New York [New York] : printed (until tyrannically suppressed), 1752-1753.
- Notes:
- Editors: William Livingston, John M. Scott, Wm. Smith, jr. Editorship also sometimes attributed to the printer of the Reflector: James Parker.
- Title page and prefatory material also issued separately (cf. Evans, 7041)
- Preface signed: The independent reflector. New-York, January 19th. 1753. Dated in error; correct year: 1754. Attributed to William Livingston, one of the editors of the Independent reflector, by Evans.
- Note below title: "More particularly adapted to the province of New-York."
- With printer's ornaments above imprint.
- Includes collected essays on politics, government, the judicial system, relations with native people, civil reform, and similar topics. Evidently controversial, the publication ceased as a result of attacks on the editors for their opinions.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Volume lacks designation; dates of coverage from individual weekly issues.
- Collects, with added prefatory material, weekly numbers of: The Independent reflector, and its companion publication, The Occasional reverberator.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 3:7042
- English Short Title Catalog, P2805.
- Contains:
- Independent reflector.
- Occasional reverberator.
- OCLC:
- 508356590
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