| Other author/creator | Moore, Edward, 1712-1757, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Cork, Hamilton Boyle, Earl of, 1729-1764, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802, contributor. |
| Uniform title | World (London, England : 1753) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Series | Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Local note | Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| Local note | Images from the source library are selected or scattered issues as well as various editions of the cataloged title and related titles (where indicated in the MARC record) as representative of the general publishing history of the title during the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| General note | Reproduction of the originals from the Burney Collection, the British Library (London). |
| General note | Adam Fitz-Adam = Edward Moore, editor and chief contributor. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | Imprint from undated colophon. |
| General note | Colophon varies; later issues read: "Printed for R[obert]. and J[ohn]. Dodsley ...". |
| General note | Above date line: To be continued every Thursday. |
| General note | Following imprint: Price 2d. |
| General note | With continuous pagination; leaves are unsigned. |
| General note | Collected annually, with added title page and an index for the whole added in 1756. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | Description based on: Number I. (Thursday, January the 4th, 1753.); title from caption. |
| General note | Latest issue consulted: Number CCIX. (Thursday, December the 30th, 1756.). |
| Citation/References note |
Winship, G. "Printing history of the World" in: Bond, R. P. Studies in the Early English Periodical |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1281 |
| References |
Times handlist, p.42 |
| Other forms | Collected volumes available in the Early British periodicals series (UMI: reel 390). |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Title history note | With supplement: A World Extraordinary; signed, 'Vandyke' [i.e. Horace Walpole], a eulogy for the 'late' Adam Fitz-Adam. |
| Title history note | Reprinted at least twenty times during the 18th century, in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals. |