The birch [electronic resource] : Humbly dedicated to the magistrates of the city of Oxford.

Oxford [England] : Printed for the author; and may be had of the booksellers, 1795-1796.

5 v. ; 24-26 cm (4to)

Irregular, No. 5 (June 1796)

Monthly, No. 1-4 (May-Aug. 1795)

No. I. (May 1, 1795.)-no. V. (June, 1796).

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Signed at end of each issue: "Academicus".

Title repeated as caption on first page of text.

Imprints include year of publication.

Issue number from head of title; reapeated as "Number ..." on first page of text in each issue.

Issue dates from first page of text.

Extended title varies; on no. 5: Addressed to the citizens of Oxford.

Author of no. 1-4 publicly denied authorship of no. 5, but a MS. purporting to be the original of no. 5 is bound with the possibly spurious issue (cf. British Library).

Essays on various problems with civic authority, and with no. 5 discusses electoral responsibility; title seems to refer to an instrument of punishment.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.

New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1364
Crane, R.S. Census of British newspapers and periodicals, 1620-1800, 1894
Times (London, England). Tercentenary handlist of English & Welsh newspapers, magazines & reviews, p. 221
Ward, W.S. Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832, p. 16
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), P6306

Great Britain -- England -- Cumbria -- Oxford.
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.

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