The world. By Adam Fitz-Adam

All titles
  • The world. By Adam Fitz-Adam
  • World (London, England : 1753).
  • World for the year ... 1753-1756
People / Organizations
Imprint
London : printed for R[obert]. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, (where letters to the author are taken in) and sold by M[ary]. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, [1753-1756]
Added name
Moore, Edward, 1712-1757, ed.; Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, contributor.; Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 contributor.; Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787, contributor.; Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762, contributor.; Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764, contributor.; Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802, contributor.
Publication year
1753-1756
ESTC No.
P1858
Grub Street ID
419420
Description
209 v. : 2°.
Note
Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor

Additional significant contributors include: the Earl of Chesterfield, Richard Owen Cambridge, Horace Walpole (No.6, 103, and other issues, including the supplement, A World Extraordinary), Soame Jenyns, Edward Lovibond, John Boyle the Earl of Orrery and Cork, his son the Hon Hamilton Boyle, and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Forty-one of the 209 papers have no assigned author

Imprint from undated colophon

Colophon varies; later issues read: "Printed for R[obert]. and J[ohn]. Dodsley ..."

Above date line: To be continued every Thursday

Following imprint: Price 2d

With continuous pagination; leaves are unsigned

Collected annually, with added title page and an index for the whole added in 1756

Issues with woodcuts depicting a writer and a globe are not of the first printing (cf. Winship). Early issues (e.g. no. 2) especially vary in headpieces (author/globe, floral, or lozenge) and different factotum initial designs. The setting of text for issues with the author/globe differs substantively from those with the floral or lozenge headpieces, which in turn differ only slightly from each other

Description based on: Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.); title from caption

Latest issue consulted: Number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.).