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Monthly Chronicle.

Other author/creatorKimber, Isaac, 1692-1755 ed.
Other author/creatorWard, Aaron, d. 1747, publisher.
Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication Info[London : for Aaron Ward, 1729-1731.
Descriptionv. ; 4°.
Supplemental Content Gale, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Subject(s)
FrequencyMonthly
Series Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Local noteImages from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries.
General noteReproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
General noteEditor and compiler: Isaac Kimber.
General noteFounder and publisher: Aaron Ward.
General noteMost individual issues lack imprint and numerical designation, with the exception of vol. 4, no. 48 (December 1731) which was issued with its own title page; volume numbers in running titles.
General noteSome issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
General noteWith continuous pagination and register to each year.
General noteIssues for the years 1728 to 1731 collected annually with added general title page, preliminaries and indexes; vol. 1 for 1728 bears the imprint: London : printed for Aaron Ward, at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain. Issues for vol. 5 (1732) lack general title page; publication ceased in March 1732.
General noteEach issue in three parts: 'Affairs of Great Britain and Ireland', 'Foreign affairs' and 'A register of books, &c. publish'd ...', with the latter getting its own annual cumulated index; in later volumes, indexes are further subdivided.
General noteVol. 4 contains a separately paged Appendix.
General noteSelections were reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine from Jan. 1731, which finally absorbed most of the clientele for this publication.
General noteIncludes monthly lists of books published, both new and reprinted publications.
General noteDescription based on: Vol. II. (January, 1729.); title from caption.
General noteLatest issue consulted: Vol. IV. No. XLVIII. (For December 1731.).
References NCBEL, II:1294
References Times handlist, p. 40
References Crane & Kaye, 570
References Sabin, 50170
Special numberingIssue for Jan. 1732 misnumbered "vol. IV"; issues for Feb.-Mar. 1732 numbered: "vol. V."
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history noteAbsorbs 'The Monthly catalogue' in March 1730; cf. NCBEL.
Asorbed Monthly catalogue (London, England : 1723)
Genre/formPeriodicals.

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