The Athenian gazette: or Casuistical mercury : resolving all the most nice and curious questions proposed by the ingenious: from ...
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Title
The Athenian gazette: or Casuistical mercury : resolving all the most nice and curious questions proposed by the ingenious: from ...
Uniform title
Athenian gazette.
Caption title
Athenian gazette 1691:Mar.17
Athenian mercury, resolving all the most nice and curious questions 1691:Mar.24-Apr.18
Athenian mercury 1691:Apr.21- >
Athenian mercury, resolving all the most nice and curious questions 1691:Mar.24-Apr.18
Athenian mercury 1691:Apr.21- >
Created/published
London [England] : Printed for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultry, 1691-1696.
Description
19 v. : tables, diagr. ; 32 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Dunton, John, 1659-1733, publisher.
Sault, Richard, -1702.
Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.
Athenian Society (London, England), publisher.
Sault, Richard, -1702.
Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.
Athenian Society (London, England), publisher.
Frequency
Irregular (collected every 30 issues)
Publication coverage
The first volume (Tuesday March 17th, to Saturday May 30th, 1691.)-The nineteenth volume. (Tuesday, Octob. 29. to Saturday, Feb. 8. 1696)
Numbering peculiarities
No cumulation published for v. 20, no. 1-10, of the Athenian Gazette/Athenian Mercury; publication ceased with no. 10.
Individual numbers published weekly at first, then semiweekly.
Individual issues from v.6:no.19 through <v.7> lack dates.
Individual numbers published weekly at first, then semiweekly.
Individual issues from v.6:no.19 through <v.7> lack dates.
Note
Editor: John Dunton, assisted by Richard Sault and Samuel Wesley, the elder.
Preface and contents in each volume; contents arranged as subject index.
Imprint includes year of publication.
Imprints vary slightly; vols. 15-19 read in part: also sold by Edm. Richardson.
Individual issue imprints vary; v.1-v.2:no.15 read: printed for P. Smart; later imprints include J. Dunton.
Later imprints from colophon include dates.
Volume 5 was intended as an annual cumulation (according to Lady Day dating) of all issues published from 17 March through January 1692.
At the end of v. 19, no. 30, the editor's note reads in part: "The 19th volume being now finisht) ... 30 numbers shall speedily be printed altogether to compleat the 20th volume, and after that an intire volume shall be publisht quarterly."
Individual issues have caption titles, which vary slightly in no. 1-8.
Includes miscellaneous information on a wide variety of subjects given in the form of questions and answers.
Preface and contents in each volume; contents arranged as subject index.
Imprint includes year of publication.
Imprints vary slightly; vols. 15-19 read in part: also sold by Edm. Richardson.
Individual issue imprints vary; v.1-v.2:no.15 read: printed for P. Smart; later imprints include J. Dunton.
Later imprints from colophon include dates.
Volume 5 was intended as an annual cumulation (according to Lady Day dating) of all issues published from 17 March through January 1692.
At the end of v. 19, no. 30, the editor's note reads in part: "The 19th volume being now finisht) ... 30 numbers shall speedily be printed altogether to compleat the 20th volume, and after that an intire volume shall be publisht quarterly."
Individual issues have caption titles, which vary slightly in no. 1-8.
Includes miscellaneous information on a wide variety of subjects given in the form of questions and answers.
Indexes
Vol. 5 includes a cumulative index to vols. 1-5 which also indexes the Supplements, The Young Student's Library, and The History of the Athenian Society; although later indexes were intended, none are known to have been published.
Relationship to other resource
Vols. 1-19 (1691-1696) are cumulations of: The Athenian gazette and Athenian Mercury.
Has monographic supplements to first five cumulated volumes.
Has monographic supplements to first five cumulated volumes.
ESTC staff note
Variant reported by DFo with Vol. 1, no.1-2 conjugate, indicating a reprint of those issues for the collected volume.
Volumes in the Early English Newspapers series (RPI) microfilmed from originals in the Burney Collection of the British Library.
Vol. 5 in the Burney Collection includes only issues with that volume number.
Volumes in the English Literary Periodicals series (UMI) microfilmed at the Bodleian Library and the Cambridge University Library; it is not always possible to identify the library from which each volume was filmed. Volumes 13, 15, 18-20 lack title pages and prefatory material; later issues have considerable print fade, affecting legibility.
Volumes in the Early English Newspapers series (RPI) microfilmed from originals in the Burney Collection of the British Library.
Vol. 5 in the Burney Collection includes only issues with that volume number.
Volumes in the English Literary Periodicals series (UMI) microfilmed at the Bodleian Library and the Cambridge University Library; it is not always possible to identify the library from which each volume was filmed. Volumes 13, 15, 18-20 lack title pages and prefatory material; later issues have considerable print fade, affecting legibility.
Exhibited
11 (January 17, 1693) Copy 1, Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2008-2009. Breaking News (catalog entry 72)
Cited/described in
Nelson, C. British newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 21
NCBEL, II: 1342
English short title catalogue (ESTC), P1743
NCBEL, II: 1342
English short title catalogue (ESTC), P1743
Folger has
v.1(1691:Mar.17-May 30)-v.19(1696:Oct.29-Feb.8)
v.1(1691:Mar 17)-v.5
v.1(1691:March 17)-v.3
v.2:no.14(1691:July 11)
v.7:no.12(1692:May 7)
v.1(1691:Mar 17)-v.5
v.1(1691:March 17)-v.3
v.2:no.14(1691:July 11)
v.7:no.12(1692:May 7)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
A4111a copy 1 (folio)
Volumes/issues held
v.1(1691:Mar.17-May 30)-v.19(1696:Oct.29-Feb.8)
Folger-specific note
Complete run, lacking only the supplements to vols. 1-5. Bd.w. Gildon, C. The history of the Athenian Society ... London: printed for James Dowley. Vol.5 no.21 misbound after vol.5 no.22; vol.14 no. 10 apparently from another copy. Manuscript table of contents. Provenance: inscribed on back free endpaper (partially torn away): "[?] Swift / 1720"
Folger accession
cs689
Call number
A4111a copy 2 Bd.w. G730
Volumes/issues held
v.1(1691:Mar 17)-v.5
Folger-specific note
Five volumes only. Lacking the supplement to vol. 5, but including the supplements to vols. 1-4
Folger accession
cs987.3
Call number
A4111a copy 3 (folio)
Volumes/issues held
v.1(1691:March 17)-v.3
Folger-specific note
Three volumes only. Lacking the supplements. Deckle edges. Vol.3 no.1-18 are in a setting of type different from that of the other Folger copies
Folger accession
cs59
Call number
A4111a copy 4 (folio)
Volumes/issues held
v.2:no.14(1691:July 11)
v.7:no.12(1692:May 7)
v.7:no.12(1692:May 7)
Folger-specific note
(Disbound.) One number only. In a setting of type different from that of the other Folger copies. Manuscript note
Folger accession
cs145
Call number
267739
Folger-specific note
FSL has the issue for Vol. 7, Numb. 12 (May 7, 1692). Gift of Herman J. Obermayer. This record represents material that has not yet been cataloged. It may contain incorrect or incomplete information. Please consult Curator for assistance.