| Variant title |
Political censor |
| Variant title |
Political censor, etc |
| Portion of title |
Monthly review |
| Caption title |
Political censor, for ... |
| Other title |
Political censor; or Review of the most interesting political occurrences Sept. 1796 |
| Frequency | Monthly, Mar.-Sept. 1796 |
| General note | 'Peter Porcupine' = William Cobbett. |
| General note | Portion of title repeated as caption, with date of issue. |
| General note | September 1796 issue has variant title. |
| General note | Imprint includes year of publication. |
| General note | Imprints vary; Sept. 1796 reads in part: "Printed for, and sold by, William Cobbett". |
| General note | Originally issued in wrappers; note on Mar. 1796 wrapper reads in part: "This work will be published on the last day of every month. Six Censors will make a volume, the sixth will ... contain a general index and table of contents." |
| General note | Text of Mar. to May issues has continuous pagination, apart from preliminary leaves; Sept. issue paginated separately. |
| General note | Includes reports and commentary on the political situation in the United States. Author is anti-democratic, anti-French, anti-Thomas Paine. Sept. issue includes excerpts from George Chalmers' hostile biography of Paine. Note in the Sept. issue reads in part: "The history of Jacobinism will be published in the course of the next month [i.e. Oct. 1796], after which, the Political censor will be continued monthly, without interruption." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References |
Evans, 30219 |
| References |
Evans, 30221 |
| References |
Evans, 30223 |
| References |
Evans, 30225 |
| References |
Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 13a |
| References |
Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 14a-b |
| References |
Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 17a-b |
| References |
Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 20a |
| References |
Sabin, 14001 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, P6084. |
| Special numbering | Monthly issues unnumbered; chronological designation only. |
| Special numbering | First issue lacks designation; dated from text. |
| Special numbering | No issues known to have been published between May and Sept. 1796; no issue published in Oct. 1796. |
| Special numbering | Collected volume is not known to have been published. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Title history note | Monthly numbers Mar.-May 1796 appeared in two further editions, published by Cobbett; Sept. 1796 reprinted in 1797. |
| Title history note | Continued in Nov. 1796 by: Porcupine's Political censor. |
| Preceding title |
Prospect from the Congress-gallery |
| Genre/form | Periodicals Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |
