The world [electronic resource], for the year ... / By Adam Fitz-Adam
- Bib ID:
- 3275433
- Format:
- Journal
- Uniform Title:
- World (London, England : 1753 : Annual)
- Online Access:
- Fulltextonline
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- Description:
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- London [England] : printed for R[obert]. and J[ohn]. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, and sold by M[ary]. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row, [1753-1757?]
- 4 v. ([2],1258,[22]p.) ; sm. fol.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Numbering Note:
- Volumes unnumbered; chronological designation only.
- Notes:
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- Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor.
- Additional significant contributors include: the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, Horace Walpole (who also wrote the concluding supplement, A World Extraordinary), Soame Jenyns, Edward Lovibond, John Boyle the Earl of Orrery and Cork, his son the Hon. Hamilton Boyle, and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Forty-one of the 209 papers have no assigned author.
- Includes title page vignette of a globe.
- Some issues have cuts of a writer looking over his shoulder at the globe at the head of the caption title. No. 1-6 have printers' ornaments at head, indicating first printing (Cf. Winship).
- Title and issue number repeated as running title in each issue.
- Below caption titles of weekly issues: To be continued every Thursday.
- Individual numbers have colophons with the names R. Dodsley and M. Cooper; from no. 104-209, J. Dodsley's name is added to the imprint.
- Price follows imprint on individual issues: 2d.
- With continuous pagination; texts begin with factotum initial.
- Reproduction of original from the British Library.
- With final supplement: A World Extraordinary; signed, 'Vandyke' [i.e. Horace Walpole], a eulogy for the 'late' Adam Fitz-Adam.
- Collected issues. Originally published weekly, with annual title pages offered to subscribers.
- Reprinted at least 20 times during the 18th century, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin.
- Supplement: A World Extraordinary; signed, 'Vandyke' [i.e. Horace Walpole], a eulogy for the 'late' Adam Fitz-Adam.
- Cited In:
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- Winship, G. "Printing history of the World" in: Bond, R.P. Studies in the Early English Periodical
- NCBEL, II:1281
- Times handlist, p. 42
- English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP1889.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
- Life Dates:
- One thousand seven hundred and fifty three. [Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.)-Number LII. (Thursday, December the 27th, 1753.)]-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six. [number CLVII. (Thursday, January the 1st, 1756.)-number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.) + suppl.]
- Has Supplement:
- World extraordinary
- Frequency:
- Annual (collected issues)
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Cumulative subject index at end of 1756 volume.
- Subject:
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- Conduct of life -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1900
- Human behavior -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Books and bookselling -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Card games -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Fashion -- England -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Actors -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- English literature -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800
- Form/genre:
- Periodicals
- Place:
- Great Britain England London.
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Moore, Edward, 1712-1757, editor
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, contributor
- Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, contributor
- Hanbury Williams, Charles, Sir, 1708-1759, contributor
- Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762, contributor
- Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787, contributor
- Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802, contributor
- Lovibond, Edward, 1724-1775, contributor
- Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764, contributor
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. World extraordinary
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