The Champion; or, British mercury. [electronic resource] : By Capt. Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-Mall.

Portion of title: British mercury

London [England] : printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row; where advertisements and letters to the author are taken in, [1739]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

94 v. ; 40 cm. (1/2⁰)

Three times a week

Began with: No.1 (15 Nov.1739). Cf. NCBEL.
-No. 63 (Tuesday, April 8, 1740).

'Hercules Vinegar' = Henry Fielding, the editor and originator.
With cut of Hercules slaying the Hydra in center of title.
Imprint from undated colophon.
First year of publication from reference sources; final year of publication from date of issue.
Imprints vary; from no. 21, "printed for C. Corbett, at Addison's Head against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet".
Issue number from head of title.
Below date line in brackets: To be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning.
Printed in three columns; text begins with factotum initial.
Includes editorial essays, news notes from England and Europe, advertisements. Articles signed 'C' or 'L' are reputed to be written by Fielding.
Description based on: Numb. 20 (Saturday, December 29, 1739.); title from caption.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Access limited to authorized users.

NCBEL, II:1330
Crane & Kaye, 101
English Short Title Catalog, P3008.

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

Reprinted in 2 vols., with its subseqent title, by Huggonson (London, 1741), Chapelle (London, 1743), and Waller (London, 1766).

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