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The London gazette
Uniform Title
London gazette (London, England : 1666)
Title
The London gazette.
Published
London [England] : T. Neuman, 1666-
Physical Description
v. ; 29-31 cm.
Frequency
Daily
Former Frequency
Semiweekly, 1666-June 23, 1709
Triweekly, June 25, 1709-Aug. 2, 1712
Semiweekly, Aug. 5, 1712-<Dec. 30, 1788>
Extent
Numb. 24 (Feb. 1 to 5, 1665 [i.e. 1666])-
Numbering Peculiarities
Some issue dates given according to Lady Day dating.
Issue numbering is somewhat irregular.
Local Notes
BEIN Z17 097 Copy 2: Imperfect, p. 547-553 wanting: 14018.
BEIN Z17 097 Copy 2: From the library of the Press Club, London: 14018, 14055.
BEIN Z17 097 Copy 2: Tax stamp: 14018.
BEIN Z17 097 Copy 2: Manuscription annotations: 14055.
BEIN Z17 097b: These are negative photostats made by Yale University Library from originals in the library of the American Antiquarian Society.
BEIN Z17 097c: These are variant issues.
BEIN 2007 +S15 2729-2979: Bound with Gazette de Londres issues of the same dates in chronological order. Autograph: JHG, with ms annotations in the same hand.
BEIN 2014 +829: Title from spine: Ecclesiastical courts: acts & bills. From the library of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford. Perforated stamp of the American Congregational Association, Boston. No.1 of 2 titles bound together.
Lewis Walpole Library 53 C292 821Su: Supplement announcing the death of Queen Caroline on August 7, 1821.
Notes
Original editor: Henry Muddiman. (cf. NCBEL).
Title from caption.
Below title: "Published by authority."
Imprint from colophon; printer's address changes.
Colophon varies; later issues list Edw. Jones as printer, <1688>-1706; M. Jones, 1706-<1707>; J[acob]. Tonson, <1707>-1715; S[amuel]. Buckley, 1716-1730; Edward Owen, 1731-1756; E[dward]. Owen and T[homas]. Harrison (sometimes just Thomas Harrison), 1757-1788. Some colophons lack names.
Price sometimes at end of colophon; in 18th century sometimes at foot of p. 1.
Printed in two columns.
Includes British and Parliamentary news, marriage and death notices, bankruptcies, official appointments, patent medicine advertisements at end of most issues.
No. 1502 (!), April 27-May 1736 reprinted in New York gazette, no. 557, June 28-July 5, 1736.
London gazette extraordinary is issued occasionally between regular numbers.
Also issued in French ed.: Gazette de Londres.
Variant and related titles
London gazette extraordinary.
Has supplement
London gazette extraordinary
Other formats
Also available on microfilm from Research Publications, Inc, Micro Methods Ltd. and British Library.
Other editions
London gazette (London, England : 1666 ). French.
Continues
Format
Journals & Newspapers
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2023
Supplement(s)
Indexes are issued with some volumes.
Supplements accompany some issues; supplements entitled "London gazette extraordinary" accompany issues in 1745, 1755, 1759, 1762, 1777, 1786, 1797, and 1799.
References
Nelson, C. British newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 471.
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1315-1316.
Times (London, England). Tercentenary handlist of English & Welsh newspapers, magazines & reviews, p. 28.
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 37515.
McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory 1702-1714, pp. 24-25.
Ward, W.S. Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832, p. 92.
English short title catalogue, P1830
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Newspapers - England - 17th century.
Newspapers - England - 18th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century.
Also listed under
Great Britain England London.
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