The Irish monthly mercury
- Publication/Creation:
- [London] : Printed at Corke, and now re-printed at London by T.N. for Giles Calvert, at the black spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls, 1649-1650
- Resource Type:
- Journal, Newspaper or Serial
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- The Irish monthly mercury
- Series Titles:
- 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers
17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers.
- Variant Titles:
- Irish mercury no. [2]
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Ireland--History--1649-1660--Newspapers
Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Newspapers
Description/Summary
- Publication Dates:
- Number 1 (Ended the 21 of December, 1649)-[Number 2] (From the 25. of January, to the 25. of February. [1650]).
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes)
- General Note:
- Imprint from colophon.
Date of coverage of no. 1 from end of text.
Colophon to no. [2] reads: Printed at Corck, and re-printed at London for Tho: Brewster, and Gregory Moule, and are to be sold at their shop at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard, neer the West end. 1650.
Subtitle of no. [2] reads: Monethly communicating all true intelligence within the Dominion of Ireland.
Some sources are not convinced that these two issues comprise a single publication, however the layout and tone appear to be the same--both are pro-Cromwell; both have doggerel verse above the text. Cf. Munter; Nelson and Seccombe; Williams.
Both issues signed "A"; pagination is not continuous.
Description based on: Number 1 (Ended the 21 of December, 1649); title from caption.
Latest issue consulted: [Number 2] (From the 25. of January, to the 25. of February. [1650])
Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London).
Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries. - Local Note:
- Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.
- Citation/Reference Note:
- Williams, J. B. History of English journalism to the foundation of the Gazette, pp. 242-243, 247
Munter, R. History of the Irish newspaper 1685-1760, p. 6n
Nelson and Seccombe, 204.1-2
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990016233290302486
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