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Title
The Whitby spy, [electronic resource].
Publication Details
Whitby [England] : printed by C. Webster on the Crag, M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- Whitby.
Language
English
Description
27 v. : 19 cm. (8⁰)
Frequency
Semiweekly
Publication Coverage
Began in Sept.? 1784; ceased in Dec. 1784. Cf. NCBEL.
Note
A general title page and prefatory material was issued to subscribers at the end of publication.
Imprint from collected issue title page; individual issues lack imprints.
Title and issue number repeated as running title.
Advertisement to the reader at end of no. 26 reads in part: "four suceeding numbers ... necessary to complete this volume, will be published together on Saturday the 11th of December; and a title page, index, and preface, will be ready ... the Saturday after."
Last page of preface includes printer's advertisement.
Unsigned, but with continuous pagination; turned chain lines, in 4s.
Essays on the conduct of life, based on anecdotes, classical allusions and selections of fiction; some issues in verse.
Description based on: No. 2. (Saturday, September 4th. 1784.); title from caption.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Imprint from collected issue title page; individual issues lack imprints.
Title and issue number repeated as running title.
Advertisement to the reader at end of no. 26 reads in part: "four suceeding numbers ... necessary to complete this volume, will be published together on Saturday the 11th of December; and a title page, index, and preface, will be ready ... the Saturday after."
Last page of preface includes printer's advertisement.
Unsigned, but with continuous pagination; turned chain lines, in 4s.
Essays on the conduct of life, based on anecdotes, classical allusions and selections of fiction; some issues in verse.
Description based on: No. 2. (Saturday, September 4th. 1784.); title from caption.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Indexed In
NCBEL, II:1367
Times handlist, p. 220
English Short Title Catalog, P3148.
Times handlist, p. 220
English Short Title Catalog, P3148.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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