The London journal : Saturday, May 11. 1723. [Numb. CXCVIII.]

Folger bibliographic ID: 339643
Folger call number: 268703
Folger holdings ID: 491689
Accession Number: 268703

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2o: [A]² [B]1 At head of title: Numb. CXCVIII.; at foot of col. 1, p.[1]: (Price Three Half-Pence.); imprint at foot of p. 6 Single issue of a weekly periodical which ran 1-21 6Aug-24Dec1719 as Thursday's journal, then London journal, 22-999 26Dec1719-17Mar1744.-- Leads off with letter recalling conditions at the time of the 1688 revolution, subscribed "Britannicus" [Hoadley?]; includes foreign and domestic news (e.g., markets, death of Kneller, translation of Hoadley to Salisbury, Lord Mayor of London's oath taking ceremony), adverts. (chiefly remedies, books)--Woodcut heading includes view of London/Thames, arms of Geo. I; fame factotum with sun, moon, earth, stars, subscribed "FHf" (i.e. Francis Hoffman fecit) KU-S copy is publisher's file copy, endorsed at head by John Pain, Register of Pamphlets, "Stamp Office Lincolns Inn Novr 7. 1723-- Entered according to the Statute Containing one sheet and half of paper the Duty three Shillings ... £0:3:0 No.304" and at foot "Recd. Novr. 7. 1723 Three Shills. ... for Recr. Genll. p[er] D Price". From the library of Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston, who acted as Walpole's agent in the manipulation of newspapers. This MS receipt shows that the paper, printed on a sheet & a half, paid the 3s pamphlet duty on the entire edition & avoided the penny-per-issue stamp tax levied on papers printed on one sheet. The LJ had only recently been converted ("bought") from a strong opposition paper (printing, for example, Cato's letters) to a government organ, controlled by Walpole

Item information about Folger 268703

No.197 (May 11, 1723) Gift of Herman J. Obermayer

Uniform title: London journal (London, England : 1719)
Extended title: The London journal : Saturday, May 11. 1723. [Numb. CXCVIII.]
Alternate titles: Thursday's journal

Government and the press Newspapers Advertising, Newspaper London (England) Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723 Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745 Great Britain City of London (England). Corporation

subject: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723
subject: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
subject: City of London (England). Corporation
associated with: Britannicus
associated with: Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761
associated with: Pain, John, Register of Pamphlets in the Stamp Office, active 1723
associated with: Price, Dennis, bill-man in the Stamp Office, active 1723
illustrator: Hoffman, Francis, active 1706-1725
publisher: Peele, John, -1771
former owner: Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1673?-1757