The world : for the year ... By Adam Fitz-Adam.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	World (London, England : 1753 : Annual)
Other Authors:	Moore, Edward, 1712-1757 (Editor), Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 (Contributor), Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802 (Contributor), Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 (Contributor), Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787 (Contributor), Lovibond, Edward, 1724-1775 (Contributor), Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762 (Contributor), Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764 (Contributor), Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759 (Contributor)
Format:	Journal
Language:	English
Series:	Eighteenth century collections online.
Subjects:	Conduct of life > Periodicals > Early works to 1900. Human behavior > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Books and bookselling > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Card games > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Fashion > England > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Actors > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. English literature > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Social life and customs > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Intellectual life > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Periodicals > England > 18th century.
Online Access:	Full text online

Description
Published:	One thousand seven hundred and fifty three. [Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.)-Number LII. (Thursday, December the 27th, 1753.)]-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six. [number CLVII. (Thursday, January the 1st, 1756.)-number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.) + suppl.]
Item Description:	Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor. Additional significant contributors include: the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, Horace Walpole (who also wrote the concluding supplement, A World Extraordinary), Soame Jenyns, Edward Lovibond, John Boyle the Earl of Orrery and Cork, his son the Hon. Hamilton Boyle, and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Forty-one of the 209 papers have no assigned author. Includes title page vignette of a globe. Some issues have cuts of a writer looking over his shoulder at the globe at the head of the caption title. Number 1-6 have printers' ornaments at head, indicating first printing (Cf. Winship). Title and issue number repeated as running title in each issue. Below caption titles of weekly issues: To be continued every Thursday. Individual numbers have colophons with the names R. Dodsley and M. Cooper; from number 104-209, J. Dodsley's name is added to the imprint. Price follows imprint on individual issues: 2d. With continuous pagination; texts begin with factotum initial. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	4 volumes (2 unnumbered pages, 1258, 22 unnumbered pages) ; sm. folio
Publication Frequency:	Annual (collected issues)
Related Items:	Collected issues. Originally published weekly, with annual title pages offered to subscribers. Reprinted at least 20 times during the 18th century, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin. Supplement: A World Extraordinary; signed, 'Vandyke' [i.e. Horace Walpole], a eulogy for the 'late' Adam Fitz-Adam.
Finding Aid:	Cumulative subject index at end of 1756 volume.
Place of Publication:	Great Britain -- England -- London.