Chit-chat. [electronic resource] : In a letter to a lady in the country. ... By Humphry Philroye.

Chit-chat, &c

London [England] : printed; and sold by R[ichard]. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner, MDCXVI. [1716]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

3 v. ; 4⁰ (20 cm.).

Weekly

Began with no. 1 (6 Mar. 1716). Cf. NCBEL.
-Numb. III. (Friday, March 16. 1715/16).

"Humphry Philroye" = Richard Steele.
Title repeated as caption on first page of text.
With contents note on title page following title.
Below title of no. 2: To be publish'd every Saturday.
Price below imprint in square brackets: three-pence.
With issue number and headpiece above caption title.
Printed in one column; text begins with factotum initial.
Issue no. 2 includes recommendation for punishment for those involved in the 1715 uprising; no. 3 recounts an attack on Richard Steele, as if written by another person, and an account of a love affair.
Description based on: Numb. II. (Saturday, March 10. 1715/16).
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

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NCBEL, II:1276
Crane & Kaye, 1109
English Short Title Catalog, P2961.

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

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