The Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events : ... For the year ...

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., folding plates ) maps ;

Irregular

Vol. I. (1775.)-[vol. XVII.] for the year 1784.

Other Title:

Remembrancer, or Impartial repository of public events

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, in Piccadilly, 1776-1780.

Notes:

Vol. I reprinted at least five times in 1775.

Includes half-title.

First volume designation from half-title page.

Imprint from title page; imprints include year of publication.

Note from Advertisement [to the reader]: "the plan of this work is, to select from all the public prints, the best account of every material public event; to print it in octavo; and at the end of the volume, to give a copious index to the whole."

Sources from which articles and information are selected include colonial government documents and press reports from various colonial newspapers. Illustrated with foldout maps of places in the news. A major resource for events leading up to and during the American Revolution

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Frequency varies. 1776 published in 3 parts: Part I and II dated 1776. Part III dated 1777.

Later vols. usually published in two parts: 2nd 1778 vol. reads: "For the year 1778, and beginning of 1779", followed by another vol. for 1779; 1780 published as Part I and Part II; 1784 also published in two parts.

Last volume unnumbered on title page; has volume note at end of text.

Finding Aid/Index:

With subject index or contents list in each volume.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1305

Crane & Kaye, 780

Times handlist, p. 44

Sabin, 955

English Short Title Catalog, P142.

OCLC:

642234147