Shelfmark
Iaa3.2.10
Title
The trifler : a new periodical miscellany / by Timothy Touchstone, of Saint Peter's College, Westminster.
Varying form of title
Trifler, a new periodical miscellany
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for the authors, and sold by Messieurs Robinsons, Pater-Noster Row., MDCCLXXXVIII-M.DCCLXXXIX [1788-1789]
Physical description
43v., 554, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm., 8to.
Note
Title, statement of responsibility and imprint taken from issue no. 1, nos. 2-43 with separate title-pages, and dated 1789.
Note
"Timothy Touchstone" = Robert Oliphant and James Allan of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Hon. Walter Aston and Sir William Elias Taunton, of Christ Church, Oxford, all undergraduates at that time (cf. Halkett & Laing).
Note
Pagination is continuous throughout.
Note
Verso of title-pages includes errata for previous number.
Citation/references note
ESTC P2548
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Ms. bookseller's note in pencil.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "John T. Beer, Rock-Ferry".
Provenance
Ms. annotation in pencil on title-page.
Binding
[?]19th century mottled calf with gilt tooling and gilt on green and red leather lettering pieces on spine ; fore-edge painting of Worcester Cathedral by John T. Beer.
Copy-specific note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Subject
Manners and customs Periodicals Early works to 1800.
Subject
England Civilization Periodicals Early works to 1800.
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Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 former owner.
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Beer, John T. (John Thomas), ca. 1826 - 1903 former owner.
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England London.
Identifier
B26912