The Retrospector. [electronic resource] : By Valentine Veteran, esq; and Co.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Manners and customs.

England--Social life and customs--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

England.

England--Civilization--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 v. )

Weekly

Number I. (Tuesday, December 31. 1754.)-number II. (Tuesday, January 7, 1754. [i.e. 1755]).

Other Title:

Retrospector

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for J. Payne, in Pater-noster-row, where letters to the authors are taken in, [1754]

Notes:

'Valentine Veteran' is a pseudonym.

Title from caption.

Title repeated as running title, with issue number in arabic.

Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates.

Years of publication from dates of issues.

Note above date line: To be continued every Tuesday.

Following imprint in square brackets: Price two-pence.

Headpiece is cut of Neptune standing in a harbor between a city skyline and a sailing ship; text begins with factotum initial.

Reflective essays, with verse, on society and manners.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

No more published.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1281

Times handlist, p. 42

English Short Title Catalog, P3124.

OCLC:

508356699