The Leeds mercury
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Leeds mercury
Classmark: Newspapers LEE
Publisher: Printed and sold by James Lister
Publication city: Leeds
Language: English
Size and medium: v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/400288
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018334939705181
Description
no.3168-16,141 September 26, 1829-December 31, 1889
no.450-457 (From Tuesday January 22. to Tuesday January 29. 1733-4-From Tuesday March 12. to Tuesday March 19. 1733-4); Num.546-609, 601-603 [sic] (Tuesday, June 22, 1736-Tuesday, September 6, 1737). 72 parts in one volume. Each number consists of four pages. With the following discrepancies in dating and numeration: the first issue in the 1736 run has had the day of the month in the heading altered from 15 and the number altered to 547; the issues for July 6 and July 13 1736 are both numbered 549; the issues for October 12 and 19 1736 are both numbered 562; there are no issues numbered 577, 586-588, 591; of the two issues dated April 5, 1737 and numbered 590, the first one bound in the volume should be dated April 12, and numbered 591; the issues for August 23, August 30, and Sept. 6 are numbered 601, 602, and 603, altered to 610, 612, and 613. Bound between nos. 572 and 573 is 'The speech of the Lords Commissioners appointed by His Majesty, for holding this Parliament; delivered... on Tuesday the first day of February, 1736-7' [1p.]
v.1 no.18 (4 Nov 1718) - v.2 no.2 (19 May 1719). Bound in volume with spine title: The Leeds Mercury 1718-19
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