| Uniform title | Observator (London, England : 1704) |
| Frequency | Semiweekly |
| Series |
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection UNAUTHORIZED
|
| Local note | Images 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 note | Images 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 note | Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London). |
| General note | Editor and principal author: Charles Leslie. |
| General note | Title from caption. |
| General note | Contents note below title. |
| General note | Imprint from colophon. |
| General note | Collected, with added preliminaries and index, together with its succeeding titles as: A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the first volume of the Rehearsals. By Philalethes. London : printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCVIII [1708]. |
| General note | In two known states; state 1: "Numb. 1.", with catchword "Best"; state 2: "Numb.", lacking the number and with catchword "Country-m.". |
| General note | Charles Leslie, a Tory and Jacobite sympathizer, wrote this and its succeeding titles in response to the Whig papers: John Tutchin's Observator and Daniel Defoe's, Review of the affairs of France. His Jacobite views led him into exile in 1710. |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1344 |
| References |
McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 46-47 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Succeeding title |
Rehearsal of Observator, &c. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals |
