Variant title |
Political censor |
Variant title |
Collected issue title page for issues from Mar.-Dec.1796 reads: Porcupine's Political censor. Vol. I |
Frequency | Monthly |
General note | 'Peter Porcupine' = William Cobbett. |
General note | Some issues include half-title with date of issue. |
General note | Title pages include contents note or table of contents. |
General note | Imprints do not include date; years of publication from dates of issues. |
General note | "Price, one quarter of a dollar" below imprint. |
General note | Includes reports and commentary on the political situation in the United States. Author is anti-democratic, anti-French, anti-Thomas Paine. |
General note | Issues have individual signatures. |
General note | Description based on: March 1797. |
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 |
Evans, 30226 |
References |
Evans, 30227 |
References |
Sabin, 14004 |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, P6085. |
Special numbering | Monthly issues unnumbered; chronological designation only. |
Special numbering | No issue published in Feb. 1797. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
Title history note | Some individual issues reprinted several times. |
Title history note | Replaced after the April issue by Cobbett's daily paper, begun in Mar. 1797: "Proposals, by William Cobbett .. for publishing a news-paper, to be entitled Porcupine's gazette and daily advertiser." (from a note in the Dec. 1796 issue). |
Preceding title |
Political censor, or Monthly review |
Genre/form | Periodicals Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |