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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	Journal
Language:	English
Published:	London [England] : printed for R : Snagg, no 29 Paternoster-Row, and sold by all the booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, 1774-1775.
Subjects:	Washington, George, > 1709-1799 > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Anecdotes > England > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Wit and humor > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. England > Intellectual life > Periodicals > Early works to 1800. Electronic books. Periodicals > England > 18th century.
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Description
Published:	1774 [sic]. Vol. I. [Aug. 1774-July 1775] Ceased in 1776.
Item Description:	Title page of volume 1 is engraved; volume 2 is letterpress. Monthly issues have caption titles with month and year of issue. Imprints lack year of publication; dated from monthly issues. Imprints vary; volume 2 reads: "London: printed for T. Bell, (no. 26), Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, and sold by all the booksellers". Title page includes contents note. With continuous pagination in each volume. Frontis. engravings for monthly issues signed: "Terry del. et sculp". Includes biographical anecdotes, miscellaneous excerpts from essays, speeches, histories, serialized adventure stories, correspondence, amusing or unusual news notes and selections of poetry. The Oct. 1775 number includes a brief biographical note on Geo. Washington. Includes a series of numbered essays: "The Listner [sic]". Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (volume, plates (some folded))
Publication Frequency:	Annual (collected issues)
Related Items:	Collects monthly issues of this periodical.
Place of Publication:	Great Britain -- England -- London.