The Covent-Garden journal [microform] / by Sir Alexander Drawcansir, knt. censor of Great Britain
- Uniform Title
- Covent-Garden journal (London, England : 1752)
- Additional Titles
- Covent Garden journal
- Published
- London [England] : printed, and sold by Mrs. [Anne] Dodd, at the Peacock, Temple-Bar; and at the Universal Register Office, opposite Cecil-Street, in the Strand; where advertisements and letters to the author are taken in, [1752]
- Physical Description
- 72 volumes ; 2⁰.
1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35mm. + Eighteenth Century Journals from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1857111443) 68p - Additional Creators
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 and Adam Matthew Publications
- Series
- Summary
- Includes personal essays, weekly summary of current events in London: 'Modern history abridged', which emphasized crime news; with foreign news notes and advertisements.
- Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation
- Numb. 1. (Saturday, January 4. 1752.)-numb. 72. (Saturday, November 25, 1752.).
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- Related Titles
- Modern history abridged
- Publication Frequency
- Weekly No. 53-72
Semiweekly No. 1-52 - Note
- Title from caption.
Sir Alexander Drawcansir = Sir Henry Fielding.
Below date line, "To be continued every Tuesday and Saturday"; later issues read, "To be continued every Saturday in the morning."
Price on date line.
Text begins with factotum initial.
Most issues have a Latin quotation and its translation above text.
Imprint from colophon; imprints lack dates.
Years of publication from dates of issues. - Special Numbering
- No more published.
- Reproduction Note
- Microfilm. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Publications, Ltd., 2000. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Eighteenth Century Journals ; reel 8). Filmed with other titles.
- Source of Acquisition
- News and Microforms Library copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20023.
- Index Note
- Finding aid available.
- Complexity Note
- Another edition published in Dublin by James Hoey, 1752-1753.
- Binding notes
- Z792.O94E44 2000 reel.8 c.1 (Microfilm, Microfiche, etc.) bound in The Kapélion [microform] : or Poetical ordinary; consisting of great variety of dishes in prose and verse; recommended to all who have a good taste or keen appetite. By Archimagírus Metaphoricus
- Reviewed/Cited In
- NCBEL, II:1280
Times handlist, p. 42
Crane & Kaye, 148
English short title catalogue, ESTCP1708.
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