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The Calcutta monthly register, or, India repository of instruction and entertainment

Title
The Calcutta monthly register, or, India repository [electronic resource] of instruction and entertainment.
Published
Calcutta [India] : printed for the compiler, by C[harles]. L[ewis]. Vogel, at the India Gazette press, M.DCC.XC. [1790]-
Physical Description
v., plates : maps, ports., ; 8⁰.
Frequency
Monthly
Extent
Vol. I. No. I. November, 1790.-
Numbering Peculiarities
Occasional issues lack volume numbers.
No more published?
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale Community.
Notes
Compiler: Lieutenant Henry McKenly (cf. Shaw).
Frontis. = plates, from paintings by John Alefounder (cf. Shaw).
Wrapper title page includes table of contents and note on the plate.
Title and designation repeated as caption at head of first page of text.
Issue numbering is consecutive, volume to volume.
Includes lists of company and military staff in Bengal, summaries of the month's events, social news including births, marriages, deaths and preferments of the European community, descriptions of Asian countries and places, announcements of arrivals and departures from India, and general information useful to British residents such as prices, local holidays, Indian weights and measures.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Collected semiannually
Variant and related titles
Calcutta monthly register
India repository
India repository of instruction and entertainment
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2006
References
Shaw, G. Printing in Calcutta, p. 67-68, 222
English short title catalogue, ESTCP2425.
Genre/Form
Periodicals - India - 18th century.
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