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The Berkshire repository, for the reception of original, fugitive, selected, and miscellaneous pieces
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- Included Title
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- Eighteenth century collections online
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- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Maidenhead, England] : Printed for the editor, and sold at the circulating library, Maidenhead; by Matthews, Strand, London; Snare and Co., Reading; Fuller, Newbury; Knight, Windsor, &c. &c., MDCCXCVII. [1797]
- Publication Dates
- Vol. I. Prose. Vol. I. Poetry [1797]
- Physical Details
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- v. ; 17 cm (12⁰)
- Published in two sections, with titles "Prose" and "Poetry".
- Title repeated as running title in the prose volume.
- Imprint from the Prose title page; the Poetry issue differs slightly by adding "Poole, Abingdon" as the last bookseller's name.
- Prose and poetry numbers separately paginated.
- With a subscribers' list.
- Prose issue consists of brief selections and anecdotes to illustrate moral or virtuous behavior intended to influence the young; it includes a "Prospectus" paginated with the rest of the issue.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- NCBEL, II:1351
- BUCP, I:319
- Crane & Kaye, 48
- Ward, W. S. Index of British Serials, p. 15
- English Short Title Catalog, P6170.