THE LONDON CHRONICLE: or Universal Evening Post From Tuesday, July 12 … to Tuesday December 15th, 1763

Issue No. 1022-1083. pp. 41-572. 62 issues bound in one vols. 4to, London: 1763. 19th-century pebbled cloth, covers detached; some headlines cropped, minor staining and browning.

One of the most important journals of the second half of the 18th century. It first ran from 1757 to June 1765 Ounder the title 'The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening Post”, and was was continued as simpply “The London Chronicle” which appeared in 113 volumes from July 2, 1765 to April 23, 1823. The London Chronicle was the one paper (according to Boswell) which Samuel Johnson always made a point of reading. It was published three times a week and contained eight pages per number which included national and international news, letters to the editor, reports on the arts, and, usually at the rear, advertisements and public notices for new publications, patent medicines, auctions, and other goods and services. News from America (as well as from other countries) was frequent, and indeed it was the London Chronicle which first published the text of the United States Declaration of Independence in Europe. The year 1763 was an particularly interesting one for news from America, where Rogers’ Rangers were besieged at Fort Detroit by a loose confederation of Nativve American tribes led by Pontillac

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