| Variant title |
Edinburgh eighth day magazine |
| Portion of title |
Scots town and country intelligencer |
| Running title |
Edinburgh eighth-day magazine |
| Frequency | Quarterly (collected issues) |
| General note | Title repeated as caption on first page of individual issues. |
| General note | Imprints include year of publication in roman. |
| General note | Title pages include brief contents note. |
| General note | With index leaf described as 'contents' in each volume. |
| General note | With continuous pagination in each volume, and a plate depicting wild or mythical animals in most issues. |
| General note | Contents include selections from a range of other periodical publications, incuding the Town and Country magazine and the London gazette. Each issue includes correspondence, historical essays, poetry, natural history, anecdotes, reviews of new books and a current events section, 'History', arranged by countries; the Scottish section includes marriages and deaths. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1372 |
| References |
Crane & Kaye, 1245 |
| References |
Craig, M. Scottish Periodical Press, p. 98 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, P5972. |
| Special numbering | Individual issues published every eight days. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Indexes |
Essay and history subjects, poetry, in each volume. |
| Title history note | Collects individual issues of the Edinburgh eighth-day magazine. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals 18th century Scotland. |
