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The Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly examiner
Title
The Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly examiner.
Published
London [England] : published by J. Wright, No. 169, opposite Old Bond-street, Piccadilly; by whom orders for the paper, and all communications of correspondents, addressed to the Editor of the Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner, will be received. Sold also by all the booksellers and newsmen in town and country.
Physical Description
36 v. ; 34 cm. (2⁰).
Frequency
Weekly
Numbering Peculiarities
One number was published on Thursday (no. 3, Nov. 30, 1797), between two regular issues; no. 34 and 35 were both issued July 2, 1798.
Local Notes
BEIN Speck Yz +An87: Bookplate of Charles Sidney Hankins. Prospectus [3 pp.] prefixed; No. 1-12 are of a different issue from those of An88 +An8. All numbers in both sets bear the revenue stamp.
Notes
Originator: George Canning; editor: William Gifford; both of whom are contributors, among others.
Title from caption.
Index from colophon.
Note above dateline on no. 1-34: "(To be continued every Monday during the sitting Parliament.)".
Price on dateline: "6D.".
Satirical treatment of radical Whig government; paper published in support of Pitt and the Tory ministry.
Variant and related titles
Anti jacobin; or, weekly examiner
Weekly examiner
Other formats
Reprint: 4th ed., 1799, available on microfilm in the Early British Periodicals series (UMI, reel 230).
Format
Journals & Newspapers
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1338
Times (London, England). Tercentenary handlist of English & Welsh newspapers, magazines & reviews, p. 47
Stewart, P. British newspapers and periodicals, 1632-1800, 5
Bond, R.P. Tatler and the Spectator and the development of the early periodic press in England, p. 20
Subjects
Genre/Form
Periodicals - England - 18th century.
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