The London mercury: or, Great Britain's weekly journal. With the freshest advices, foreign and domestick.

All titles

• The London mercury: or, Great Britain's weekly journal. With the freshest advices, foreign and domestick.
• London mercury Great Britain's weekly journal

People / Organizations

• J. Nott ("printed by")
• Thomas Bickerton ("sold by")

Imprint

London [England]: printed by J. Nott, and sold by T[homas]. Bickerton at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, and may also be had at the City-Cryer's office in Kingstreet near Guildhall; at which last place letters of correspondents and advertisements are taken in.

Publication year

1721-1722

ESTC No.

P2133

Grub Street ID

55847

Description

v. : ill. ; 2⁰ (34-37 cm.)

Note

Main title printed with head ornament, the lower portion a cut showing the City of London, flanked by Isis and the river god Thame; coat of arms and a cut of Britannia bracket the title words.

Content notes following title vary.

Imprint from colophon.

Imprints vary; Bickerton's name appears alone from no. 46; from no. 69 printer and bookseller is J. Payne.

Advertisements illustrated with small cuts.

Printed in two columns.

Each issue includes foreign and domestic news, including preferments, and a page with histories and heraldic notes on important families, illustrated with coats of arms.

Description based on: Numb. 30 (Saturday May 13. to Saturday 20 [1721]); imprint from numb. 44 (Aug. 19/26, 1721); title from caption.

Uncontrolled note

Library of Congress has scattered holdings, no. 30-86 (1721-1722). No. 85 is last intact issue. Catalogued issues imperfect.