Uniform title | Mercure Britannique. French. (London, England) |
Variant title |
Mercure Britannique |
Portion of title |
Notices historiques et critiques ... |
Caption title |
Mercure Britannique |
Frequency | Three times a year (collected issues) |
General note | Principal author and editor: M. Jacques Mallet du Pan. |
General note | Text in French. |
General note | Note below title of v. 1: "Nos.I. II. & III. contenant un essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté Helvétique." The first issue has a separate title page with this title. |
General note | Imprints include dates. |
General note | Some volumes read: "a Londres" within an ornamental rule, and the ornamental rule between imprint and date is shorter than the imprint date. |
General note | Variant imprint on some volumes gives "a Londres" in large swash capitals; the plain rule between imprint and date is longer than in the other printing. |
General note | Below imprint date: "Prix six chelins." |
General note | Title to vols. 4-5 enlarged by the insertion of the words: "Seconde année" between the words "tems." and "Par". |
General note | With continuous pagination in each volume. |
General note | M. du Pan's work on Swiss independence and European political affairs during the period of Napoleonic expansion. Nos. 1-3 include a political history of Switzerland; subsequent numbers analyze, country by country, current political events in Europe. Great Britain is discussed last in each issue, with praise. Vol. 5 concludes with an appeal for funds to aid the cause of Swiss independence and an account of Mallet du Pan's death and funeral. |
General note | Reproduction of original from the British Library. |
References |
NCBEL, II:1338 |
References |
Crane & Kaye, 452 |
References |
Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 102 |
References |
Times handlist, p. 48 |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6376. |
Special numbering | Volume 5 includes four numbers instead of the usual eight. |
Special numbering | No.1-3 (Aug.-Sept. 1798) issued as one number in 9 chapters; issues appear semimonthly thereafter. |
Special numbering | No more published. |
Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |
Title history note | Issued also in Italian and German, and in other English and French eds., in western Europe, Britain and Ireland. |
Title history note | Collects first and subsequent semimonthly issues of Mercure Britannique. |
Genre/form | Periodicals 18th century England. |