The Political state of Great Britain

All titles

• The Political state of Great Britain
• Political state of Great Britain (London, England : 1711 : Semiannual).
• Political state; The political state of Great Britain for the month of ...; The political state for ... Mar. 1712-

People / Organizations

• John Baker ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London [England] : printed and sold by J[ohn]. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Paternoster-Row, 1711-

Added name

Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729, ed.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Publication year

1711-1740

ESTC No.

P3080

Grub Street ID

56506

Description

v., plates : ports., tables, maps ; 20 cm. (8°)

Note

Edited by Abel Boyer until his death; occasionally erroneously attributed to Defoe

Imprint includes year of publication

Imprints vary; vol. 10-11 read in part, "printed for John Baker, and T. Warner"; vol. 12 reads in part, "printed for the author"

Monthly issues through June 1712 have city and date at head of first page of text in each issue

Some vols. include monthly issue title pages reading: The political state of Great Britain, with the most material occurrences in Europe. For the month of ..

Some issues include running titles with date and a portion of the main title

Outer margin of each page of text includes content notes, and from v.2: volume numbers

Some issues dated according to Lady Day dating

Includes detailed reports on Parliamentary and court activity for the month, discusses European political and military news, with lists of promotions, budget news and copies of political documents

One issue only filmed at Primary Source Microfilm, the Eighteenth Century, reel 14086 - 1714:Nov.

Uncontrolled note

Individual numbers went through as many as three reprintings; the Feb. 1711 issue appeared on 13/15 and 24/27 Feb. and 1/3 Mar. 1711. First printings of the first 48 issues are extremely rare (cf. McLeod)