| Variant title |
Flying Post or The Post Master |
| Frequency | Three times a week |
| Series |
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection UNAUTHORIZED
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| 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 | Title varies. |
| General note | From "no later than 1697" edited by George Ridpath; from sometime in 1713, edited by Stephen Whatley. Cf. McLeod. |
| General note | Dates of some issues given according to Lady Day dating. |
| General note | Imprint from colophon. |
| General note | Imprint varies. |
| General note | Originally printed as a folio half-sheet, during 1713 appeared as a small folio of four or six pages. |
| General note | Some issues signed at head of title. |
| General note | The chief Whig newspaper during the reign of Queen Anne. Cf. McLeod. |
| General note | Description based on: Numb. 128 (From Saturday March 7. to Tuesday March 10. 1696); title from caption. |
| General note | Latest issue consulted: Numb. 5808 (Tuesday February 2. 1731). |
| References |
Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 156.122-881 |
| References |
Nelson & Seccombe. Brit. newspapers and periodicals, 1641-1700, 156* |
| References |
McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p. 16, 27 |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1320 |
| References |
Times handlist, pp. 33, 40 |
| References |
Crane & Kaye, 242 |
| Special numbering | Numbering continues from previous title. |
| Supplement note | With occasional "Postscripts",some having distinctive titles. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Title history note | Some issues reprinted in Edinburgh, 1696. |
| Title history note | Reprinted in Dublin by Cornelius Carter, beginning in Mar.? 1699? And apparently the source for other Irish newspapers: reprints, copies or piracies, between 1699? and 1725. |
| Title history note | In Aug. 1712 absorbed The Medley, which was separately numbered for the first six issues then continued unnumbered, but with a section title, as part of every second or third issue of The Flying-post until Jan. 1713. Cf. McLeod. |
| Preceding title |
Flying-post (London, England : 1695) |
| Asorbed |
Medley (London, England : 2nd. ser., 1712 : Baldwin/Baker) |
| Other edition issued | Flying post: or, the post-master (Dublin, Ireland : 1699 : C. Carter) |
| Genre/form | Newspapers. |
