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The Weekly entertainer; or Agreeable and instructive repository. : Containing a collection of select pieces, both in prose and verse; curious anecdotes, instructive tales, and ingenious essays on different subjects
Title
The Weekly entertainer; or Agreeable and instructive repository. : Containing a collection of select pieces, both in prose and verse; curious anecdotes, instructive tales, and ingenious essays on different subjects.
Published
Sherborne [Dorset, England] : printed by R. Goadby and Co., M. DCC. LXXXIII. [1783]-1819.
Physical Description
59 v. ; 20-23 cm (8vo)
Frequency
Annual, v. 45-59 (1805-1819)
Former Frequency
Semiannual, v. 1-44 (1783-1804)
Extent
Vol. I. [(Jan.-June 1783)]-v. LIX. [(Jan.-Dec. 1819)].
Numbering Peculiarities
Individual issues have chronological designation only.
Some volumes misnumbered on title page.
Volume and consecutive issue numbers added to direction line of each issue, v. 1-29 (no. 1-731) ending with issue of 27 Feb. 1797; volume numbers continue to be added to each issue through v. 59.
Local Notes
BEIN Z17 303i 18: Imperfect: Pages 273-296 (issue for Sept. 19, 1791) wanting; pages 399-400 wanting; all after page 636 wanting; pages 393-394 mutilated, with some loss of text.
BEIN Z17 303i 29-30: Bound 2 v. in 1.
BEIN Z17 303i 29: Imperfect: Pages 181-200 (issue for Mar. 6, 1797) wanting.
BEIN Z17 303i 29: Also includes issue for June 27, 1796 (v. 27, no. 696) bound at front.
BEIN Z17 303i 30: Imperfect: Title page and index wanting; pages 41-60 (issue for July 17, 1797), 81-100 (issue for July 31, 1797), 161-180 (issue for Aug. 28, 1797), 201-280 (issues for Sept. 11-Oct. 2, 1797), and all after page 300 (issues for Oct. 16 onward) wanting.
BEIN Z17 303i 30: Also includes issues for Nov. 28, 1796 (v. 28, no. 718)-Dec. 5, 1796 (v. 28, no. 719) bound at end.
Notes
Imprint varies; v. 16-v. 26 read in part: printed by Goadby and Lerpiniere; v. 27-<v. 38> read in part: printed by Goadby, Lerpiniere, and Langdon.
Includes anecdotes and miscellaneous information in history, biography and politics, selections of fiction and poetry, and miscellaneous reprinted essays.
Microfilm. Vol. 1-59 (1782-1759). Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. 13 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Early British Periodicals ; reels 610-622).
Cumulates weekly issues of: The weekly entertainer.
Variant and related titles
Agreeable and instructive repository
Weekly entertainer
Continued by
Format
Journals & Newspapers
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1352
Ward, W.S. Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832, p. 169
English short title catalogue, P002050
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Periodicals.
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