The craftsman

by: D'Anvers, Caleb; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL

Publication date: 1731

Topics: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1727-1760, Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760

Publisher: London : Printed for R. Francklin ...

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: English

Volume: 9

Reprint of political essays from weekly originally published: Dec. 5, 1726-May 5/8, 1727, Craftsman, no. 1-44; May 13, 1727-April 17, 1736, Country journal, no. 45-511. Numbers omitted in this reprint: 301-302, 310, 354, 387-389, 392, 397, 401, 408-409, 427-429, 432, 434, 458, 460, 479, 481, 504. Originally published semiweekly, then weekly: London, 1726-1737. Some numbers ommitted in this edition

Appendices include issues of 'The Craftsman extraordinary' and other political essays as unnumbered supplements

Each vol. includes index and appendix

Portrait of the author on t.p

Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p., v. 1-7

T.p. printed in red and black

Head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials

John Adams' signature on p. 3 of v. 1, and t.p., v. 2-14: "John Adams."

Caleb D'Anvers = Nicholas Amhurst, Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke, William Pulteney, etc

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

ESTC

Also available on microfilm

Also available on microfilm (No. 1-45 (1726-1727), scattered issues: 1731-1733)

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894