The asylum or Weekly miscellany [electronic resource].

Portion of title: Weekly miscellany

Glasgow [Scotland] : printed by William Bell, Saltmarket, [1794-1796]

Great Britain -- Scotland -- Glasgow.

English

3 v. ; 8⁰.

Irregular (Collected issues)

Vol. I. [No. 1. (Wednesday, July 30, 1794.)-no. 26. <21 Jan. 1795?>]-vol. III. [no. 53. (Wednesday Oct. 14, 1795.)-no. 78. (Wednesday April 14, 1796.)].

Includes historical and biographical anecdotes, selections from published essays and fiction, some correspondence, and poetry.

Note below title reads: Containing a pleasing, amusing, and useful variety; partly original, and partly selected from the best periodical publications, and other books of approved merit.
Imprints include years of publication; v. 1 dated "1794" but includes weekly no. from Jan. 1795.
Some individual issues have colophons which read: "Glasgow: printed by Wm. Bell, Saltmarket"; a few later issues include month, day, and year of publication in colophon.
Weekly issues have caption titles, with issue no. and price below title.
Individual issues have volume numbers on direction line, from v. 2.
With continuous pagination and signatures for each volume.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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NCBEL, II:1374
Ward, W. S. Index of Serials, p. 170
English Short Title Catalog, P2922.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Subjects and poetry titles.

Collects weekly issues of The Asylum, with index in last issue of each volume.

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