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The Country spectator
Uniform Title
Country spectator (Gainsborough, England : 1792 : Weekly).
Title
The Country spectator [electronic resource].
Published
Gainsborough [England] : printed by Mozley and Co. for the author, and sold by Messers. [Thomas] Hookham and [James] Carpenter, Bond-street, London, -1793]
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm (8⁰)
Extent
Began with: Number I. (Tuesday, 9 Oct. 1792).
-Number XXXIII. (Tuesday, 21 May, 1793.)
Numbering Peculiarities
Wrappers lack chronological designation.
No more published.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originator and editor: Thomas Fanshawe Middleton, with contributions from the Rev. D.H. Urguhart, the Rev. G. Smith and James Stovin.
Issued in wrappers.
Imprint from wrapper; wrapper lacks date.
Last year of publication from dates of issues.
Below imprint: "Of whom may be had particular nos. or complete sets."
Note from wrapper title: "Intended chiefly to illustrate the manners, characters and amusements, exhibited in rural life."
Issue number from wrapper, repeated below caption title.
"Price twopence" from wrapper.
Last issue includes title page, half-title, dedication and contents for the collected issues.
Includes personal essays, some offering moral or philosophical contrasts between country and city life.
Description based on: Number XXX. (Tuesday, 30 April, 1793.); title from caption.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Collected at end of publication in one volume by: The country spectator.
Variant and related titles
Wrapper title: Number ... of The country spectator; a periodical paper
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 23, 2010
References
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1348
Times (London, England). Tercentenary handlist of English & Welsh newspapers, magazines & reviews, p. 220
Ward, W.S. Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832, p. 38
English short title catalogue, P6225.
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