| Variant title |
Sailors advocate |
| Caption title |
Sailors advocate No. I |
| Abstract |
Includes arguments against impressing seamen and for rationalizing administration of the Royal and merchant navies. No. 2 includes reprint of 1707 pamphlet: "An enquiry into the causes of our naval miscarriages", by "[blank] Esq; then a country gentleman". |
| General note | Title repeated as caption on no. 1 only; later numbers lack caption titles. |
| General note | Imprint of no. 1 lacks date; imprint of no. 2 dated: 1728. |
| General note | Imprints vary; no. 2 has imprint reading in part: "printed for A. Moore"; the imprint name is fictitious. |
| General note | Below imprint in square brackets: "Price six pence". |
| General note | Issue number for no. 1 taken from head of p. 3; later issue numbers on title pages, repeated at head of first page of text. |
| General note | Pagination is continuous from issue to issue. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from the British Library. |
| References |
Goldsmith's lib. cat., 37719 |
| References |
Hanson, 3852 |
| References |
Sabin, 74972 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP2832. |
| Special numbering | First issue lacks title page designation. |
| Special numbering | Issues lack chronological designation. |
| Special numbering | No more published. |
| Supplement note | No. 1 and 4 have appendices. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |
| Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |
| Other title |
Enquiry into the causes of our naval miscarriages. |
