Adams's weekly courant. With news both foreign and domestick.
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- Adams's weekly courant. With news both foreign and domestick.
- Weekly courant Adam's weekly courant <Jan. 1775>-
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Chester [England]: printed by Roger Adams, where advertisements are taken in, at reasonable rates.
- Publication year
- 1732-?
- ESTC No.
- P1499
- Grub Street ID
- 55296
- Description
- v. ; 2⁰; 1⁰
- Note
- Title drops subtitle by <Jan. 1775>.
Title bracketed by crude woodcuts of shields in double ruled frames; titles engraved from <1746->.
Imprint from colophon; imprint lacks date.
Imprints vary; by <Feb. 1746> "printed by Eliz. Adams", in 1746: advertisments taken in by "Mr. Durston, bookseller in Shrewsbury", followed by note naming distributors and agents in Liverpool and Manchester; later years have her name only; by <1775>: "printed by J. Monk in Newgate-street" and distributors are named for London, Nantwich and Birmingham.
Issue number at head of title; weeks of each quarter(?) added in roman at left.
Printed in three columns; by 1750 printed on larger sheet; text begins with factotum initial.
Price on date line in later issues.
Includes European and London news, local news notes, commodity prices at Chester, some regional news and local advertisements, some illustrated with small cuts. Description based on: Numb. 279. (Wednesday, March 22, to Wednesday, March 29, 1738.); title from caption.
- Uncontrolled note
- Title change is speculative; reference sources record subsequent title as: The Chester courant and Anglo Welsh gazette, however libraries holding this title appear to have no issues earlier than 1801. The Beinecke Library at Yale has issues of The Chester courant for 1795-1798.
Cataloged from holdings at the Manchester Central Library; scattered holdings from 1746-1752; some issues mutilated. Scattered issues lacking from the Burney collection. Some issues in Burney collection cropped at head and/or foot, with some loss of print.