At head of title: Number I. of the new election budget
Included Title
Eighteenth century collections online
Format
Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
Language
English
Publication
Norwich [England] : printed by J. Crouse and W. Stevenson, [1786]
Publication Dates
Number I.-number XXV. [Sept. 1786]
Physical Details
v. ; 28 cm (4⁰)
First issue has title page; title and issue number repeated as caption on each issue.
Title page includes description of publishing plan, and sentence beginning: "This work will be continued as the advocates for each candidate ... [exhibit] fresh marks of ingenuity ...."
Imprint lacks date; year of publication from internal evidence.
Issues after number one lack imprint; most issues have statement at end of text: "To be continued"; from no. 12, colophon reads: "A letter-box in the Coffee-house (Johnson's) Passage."
Date of last number from end of text.
Issue numbers at head of caption titles.
Printed in two columns headed "Hobart" and "Beevor", with continuous text under each heading, catchwords, and continuous pagination.
Collected newsletters, published as often as every day or two, with satiric support and criticism of local parliamentary candidates. Issues include correspondence, some fictitious, poetry, and both serious and satiric commentary on the candidates: Thomas Beevor and Sir Henry Hobart.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.