The world. [electronic resource] : By Adam Fitz-Adam.
Moore, Edward, 1712-1757, ed.; 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.
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The world. [electronic resource] : By Adam Fitz-Adam.
Uniform Title
World (London, England : 1753).
Added T.P.Title
Collected annually with added title: World for the year ... 1753-1756
Publication Details
London : printed for R[obert]. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, (where letters to the author are taken in) and sold by M[ary]. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, [1753-1756]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
209 v. : 2⁰.
Frequency
Weekly
Publication Coverage
Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.)-Number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.).
Note
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. no. 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.).
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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. no. 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.).
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Indexed In
Winship, G. "Printing history of the World" in: Bond, R. P. Studies in the Early English Periodical
NCBEL, II:1281
Times handlist, p.42
English Short Title Catalog, P1858.
NCBEL, II:1281
Times handlist, p.42
English Short Title Catalog, P1858.
Available Note
Collected volumes available in the Early British periodicals series (UMI: reel 390).
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Linking Note
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.
Reprinted at least twenty times during the 18th century, in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
Added Author
Moore, Edward, 1712-1757, ed.
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.
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.
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