World (1753).

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	World (London, England : 1753)
Corporate Author:	British Library
Other Authors:	Moore, Edward, 1712-1757 (Editor), Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 (Contributor), Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 (Contributor), Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787 (Contributor), Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762 (Contributor), Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764 (Contributor), Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802 (Contributor)
Format:	Journal
Language:	English
Series:	17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers.
Subjects:	1603-1800 Conduct of life > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Fashion > 18th century > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Intellectual life > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Newspapers. Periodicals.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic resource

Description
Published:	Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.)-Number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.).
Item Description:	Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London). Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor. Additional significant contributors include: the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, Horace Walpole (No.6, 103, and other issues, including the 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. Imprint from undated colophon. Colophon varies; later issues read: "Printed for R[obert]. and J[ohn]. Dodsley ...". Above date line: To be continued every Thursday. Following imprint: Price 2d. With continuous pagination; leaves are unsigned. Collected annually, with added title page and an index for the whole added in 1756. Issues with woodcuts depicting a writer and a globe are not of the first printing (cf. Winship). Early issues (e.g. number 2) especially vary in headpieces (author/globe, floral, or lozenge) and different factotum initial designs. The setting of text for issues with the author/globe differs substantively from those with the floral or lozenge headpieces, which in turn differ only slightly from each other. Description based on: Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.); title from caption. Latest issue consulted: Number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.). Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource. Collected volumes available in the Early British periodicals series (UMI: reel 390).
Publication Frequency:	Weekly
Related Items:	With supplement: A World Extraordinary; signed, 'Vandyke' [i.e. Horace Walpole], a eulogy for the 'late' Adam Fitz-Adam. Reprinted at least twenty times during the 18th century, in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
Place of Publication:	Great Britain -- England -- London.