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Mercurius democritus, or, A true and perfect nocturnall [electronic resource] : communicating wonderfull news out of the world in the moon, the Antipodes, Tenebris, Fary-land, Egypt, Green-land, and other adjacent countries. Published for the right understanding of all the mad-merry-people of Great-Bedlam

Uniform Title
Mercurius democritus (London, England : 1652)
Additional Titles
Mercurius democritus, or, A true and perfect nocturnal, Title fluctuates: Laughing mercury, or, True and perfect newes from the Antipodes no. 22-29, and Title fluctuates: Laughing mercury, or, A true and perfect nocturnall no. 30
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1652-1654]
Physical Description
volumes ; 4¿́°.
Additional Creators
Crouch, John, active 1660-1681
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Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation
Numb. 1 (Tuesday-night, Aprill 8. 1652)-Numb. 86 (From Wednes. Febr. 15. to Wednesday February 22. 1654)
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Publication Frequency
Weekly
Note
Edited and published by John Crouch, this was the first of several newsbooks with similar titles published by Crouch during the Commonwealth period. Titles fluctuate during a period when the author/publisher was being pursued by the authorities. Cf. Frank.
Title from caption.
Subtitles vary.
Issues before no. 43 lack imprints; place of publication from Nelson & Seccombe.
This record subsumes all editions and variants of individual issues of this title, as recorded by Nelson & Seccombe.
Pagination and signatures are continuous.
Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
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This database contains images from the Charles Burney Collection purchased by the British Library in 1818. It includes periodicals and newspapers published in England, Ireland and Scotland, parliamentary papers, pamphlets and proclamations, manuscript material, and news-books. The collection also includes news media from the British colonies in the Americas and Asia. The database may include selected or scattered issues of some journals and newspapers and complete runs of other titles.
Special Numbering
Variant of no. 14 (30 June-7 July 1652) is misdated '8 July'.
Numb. 76 omitted in numbering.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Reviewed/Cited In
Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 307.01-86
Frank, J. Beginnings of the English newspaper 1620-1660, p. 242
NCBEL, I: 2107
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