Digitized Burney Periodicals
Handout distributed by Prof. James Tierney (University of Missouri, St. Louis) at the “Bibliography, the ESTC, and 18th-Century Electronic Databases: A Roundtable” session that took place at the EC/ASECS 2009 conference hosted by Lehigh University and held at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Oct. 8-11, 2009. N.B. Some of the formatting has been altered; a pdf version will be posted soon that will offer the original layout.
Digitized Periodicals (not “Newspapers”) in the Burney Collection,
Including Note of Some Missing Issues and Their Locations Elsewhere
The Adventurer 1753-1754
The Advocate Feb 17, 1725
The Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner 1797-1798
The Athenian News: or Dunton’s Oracle 1710
The Britain 1713
The British Apollo 1708-1711 (Various issues–Quarterly, Supernumerary, or Curious Amusements—published on variant schedules)
The Briton 1762-1763
The Busy Body 1759
The Censor 1717 Burney lacks 65 of 66 numbers. Bodleian [Hope fol. 68(6)] has complete run except for Nos. 61 & 64
The Centinel 1757 Burney holds Nos 1-27 of 140 numbers
The Charitable Mercury and Female Intelligence 1716
The Church Man or Loyalist’s Weekly Journal 1726-1727
The Church Man’s Last Shift: or the Loyalist’s Weekly Journal 1720 Burney holds only Nos 2-4 of 22 numbers; Yale holds 20 of 22 issues
Collection for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade 1692-1703
Compleat Set of St. James Journals 1722-1723
The Connoisseur (collected issues) [1756?]
The Constitutional Guardian 1770
The Con-Test 1756-1757
The Controller 1714-1715
The Country Gentleman 1726 Burney lacks Nos 1-16; 60-84. Bodleian: (Hope f.70(8) holds additional 11 numbers
The Covent Garden Journal 1752
The Crab Tree 1757
The Craftsman or Gray’s Inn Journal 1752-1763
The Critick 1718
The Devil 1755 Burney holds 6 of 25 numbers. Bodleian: Hope 8o 895 holds Nos 1-25
The Director 1720-1721 Burney holds only Nos. 1-2 of 30 numbers Bodleian: Hope fol.70(15) holds Nos. 1-30
The Diverting Post 1704-1705
The English Examiner 1715
The Englishman (Supplement, No. 57, Feb 15, 1714)
The Englishman. Being the Sequel of the Guardian 1713-1714
The Englishman 1715 (ESTC: “resurrected version of Steele’s 1713 periodical”)
The Englishman 1779
The Entertainer 1717-1718 Burney holds only only No. 18 of 43 numbers. Cambridge University holds Nos 1-43
The Entertainer 1754
The Examiner 1710-n.s. vol 3. 1716
The Examiner or Remarks Upon Papers and Occurrences 1710 (contd. as The Examiner)
The Free Enquirer 1761
The Free Holder 1715-1716
The Free Thinker 1711 Burney holds only Nos. 1 & 4 of 6 numbers. Bodleian: Nich. newsp. 19c holds Nos 1-6
The Free Thinker, or Essays on Ignorance 1718-1721
The Freeholder’s Journal 1722-1723
The Gray’s Inn Journal 1753-1754
The Grumbler 1715 Burney holds Nos. 29 & 30 of 34 numbers
The Guardian 1713
The Hermit 1711-1712
The History of Cradle Convulsions 1701
The Honest Gentleman 1718-1719 Burney holds only No 17 of 25 numbers. Bodleian: Hope 71 holds Nos 1-25
The Honest True Briton 1724 Burney holds 9 scattered numbers of 22 numbers
How Do You Do? 1796
The Humanist 1757
The Hyp Doctor 1730-1741 Burney holds only 3 numbers (233-234, 236) of 534 numbers
The Independent Whig 1720-1721
The Inquisitor 1724
The Instructor 1724
The Jacobite’s Journal 1747-1748
The Jesting Astrologer 1701 Burney lacks first 16 numbers (Astrological Observator) and No 18
The Jesuite 1719
Journal de l’Europe 1789
The Literary Courier of Grub Street 1738 Burney holds 3 numbers (5, 18, 20) of 30 numbers. Yale: Z17 0369L holds Nos. 1-30
The Literary Fly 1779
The Lounger 1785-1787 (Edinburgh)
The Lover 1714 Burney lacks Nos. 29-40 of 40 numbers. Bodleian: Nich. newsp. Holds Nos 1-40
The Loyal Observator Revived; or Gaylard’s Journal 1722-1723 Burney holds only No. 17 of 33 numbers
The Lying Intelligencer 1763
Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species 1755
Mercurius Politicus 1716-1720
The Microcosm 1757
The Mirror 1779-1780
The Mirrour 1719
The Miscellany 1732
The Moderator 1719
The Moderator 1721
The Moderator 1763
The Monitor 1714 Burney holds only 3 numbers (5, 12-13) of 47 numbers
The Monitor 1724
The Monitor or The British Freeholder 1755-1765 Burney lacks at least last 162 of 504 numbers
The Narrative or the Delightful and Melancholy History of Leucippe 1719
The North Briton 1762-1763
The North Briton 1763-1766 Burney contains only 2 numbers (66 & 81) of 235 numbers of this continuation of The North Briton printed by W. Brooke for E. Sumpter
The North Briton 1768-1769 Burney set combines volumes published by E. Sumpter (1763-1766) and by W. Bingley (1768-1769)
The North Briton 1769 Reprint of 47 numbers (1762-1763), the first 45 of which are of Wilkes original issues.
The Observator 1715
The Observator 1724-1725
The Observator Reviv’d 1707 Burney holds only 1 number (22) of 23 numbers
The Occasional Respondent 1764 (Cambridge)
The Occasional Writer 1762
The Occasionalist 1768
The Old Maid 1755-1756
The Old Whig 1719 (Addison)
The Old Whig: or the Consistent Protestant 1735-1738
Olla Podrida 1787-1788
The Oracle 1754
Pasquin 1722-1724
The Patrician; Being Considerations on the Peerage 1719
The Patriot 1714-1715
The Patriot 1762
The Plain Dealer 1712
The Plain Dealer 1724-1725
The Plebeian 1719
The Prater 1756
The Present State of Europe; or, The Historical and Political Mercury 1690-1738 Burney contains only 6 numbers in Vols. 3,4, 6 of 58 volumes. Cambridge University holds Vols. 1-32, 35-36
The Prompter 1734-1736
The Prompter 1789
The Protestant Advocate 1724
The Protestor on Behalf of the People [1753?]
The Publisher 1745
The Rambler 1753 (collection of original 1750-1752 issues)
The Reconciler 1713
The Rehearsal of Observator Perhaps the reprinted edition of the first volume (1708) of the original 1704-1705 issues
The Remembrancer: or, National Advocate 1751
The Retrospector 1754-1755
A Review of the Affairs of France 1704-1705 (Defoe)
A Review of the Affairs of France (Appendix) 1705 (Defoe)
A Review of the State of the British Nation 1707-1712 (Defoe)
A Review of the State of the British Nation 1707-1712 (Collected edition) (Defoe)
A Review of the State of the English Nation 1706-1707 (Defoe)
The Rhapsody 1712 Burney holds only 1 number (19) of 30 numbers. Bodleian: Nich. newsp. 20A holds Nos. 1-20
The Scotchman 1772 (London)
The Scourge, Designed as a Modest Vindication of the Church of England 1717
The Scourge 1771
The Scrutator 1764 Burney holds only 2 numbers (1 & 2) of 38 numbers. BL: T929(5) contains Nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-18
The Seasonable Writer 1727
The Shift Shifted: or Weekly Remarks and Political Reflexions 1716-[1717?]
The Spectator 1711-1712
The Spectator 1715 Burney holds only one number of the 61 numbers in this spurious continuation of Addison and Steele’s original Spectator
The Spectator 1716 Not related to Addison and Steele’s original Spectator
The Spectator 1753-1754 Not related to Addison and Steele’s original Spectator
The Spendthrift 1766 Burney lacks Nos. 7, 10, and 16 of 20 numbers. BL: 90.d. 15 holds Nos. 1-20
A Supplementary Journal to the Advice from the Scandal Club 1704 1705 (Defoe)
The Tatler 1709-1711 (Addison and Steele’s original)
The Tatler 1711 (Morphew’s continuation)
The Tatler 1711 (Baldwin’s continuation)
The Tatler 1753-1754 (Not related to Addison and Steele’s original Tatler)
The Tea-Table 1724
Terrae Filius March 15, 1764
Terrae Filius March 16, 1764
Terrae Filius 1721 Burney contains only 1 number (30) of 52 numbers
Terrae Filius Extraordinary 1764
The Test 1756-1757
The Theatre 1720 (Steele)
The Theatrical Monitor or Stage Management and Green Door Laid Open 1767
The Tomahawk or Censor General 1795-1796
The Traiteur 1780-1781
The True Briton 1723-1724
The True Patriot : and History of Our Own Times 1745-1746
The Tuner [1769?]
The Universal Journal 1723-1724
The Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal 1728-1746 Burney lacks scattered numbers throughout 907 numbers
The Visiter 1723-1724
The Weekly Entertainment 1700
The Weekly History or An Account of the Most Remarkable Particulars Relating to the Present Progress of the Gospel 1741-1742
The Weekly Medley or the Gentleman’s Recreation 1718-1720 Burney holds Nos. 70-79 of 79 numbers
The Weekly Miscellany 1701
The Weekly Miscellany 1732-1741
The Weekly Oracle: or Universal Library 1734-1737 Burney lacks Nos 11-108 of 108 numbers
Weekly Remarks and Political Reflections 1715-1716
A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France 1704 (Defoe)
The Whipping Post 1705 Burney holds only No. 17 of 20 numbers. Boston Public Library *XDefoe 30.705.A10W2. Nos 1-20
The Whisperer 1770-1772
The World 1753-1756
Yorkshire Freeholder 1780 Burney holds Nos 1-11 of 20 numbers. Bodleian: Nos. 1-19
TOTAL NUMBER OF PERIODICAL TITLES: 161
Duplication of Titles in Digitized Burney Collection
Although Charles Burney’s Collection and the British Library’s possession of it far predate the various modern digitized series that have come on the market in the last decade, nonetheless the digitized Burney collection duplicates many titles found in these later series. Because a few series are still in progress, the following statistics can only be tentative.
Adam Matthew Publications:
Eighteenth Century Journals I (digital) 22 titles
Eighteenth Century Journals II (digital) 17 titles
Eighteenth Century Journals III (digital) 2 titles
Proquest:
British Periodical Collection 1 & 2 (digital) 19 titles
60 duplicated titles
Early Modern Online Bibliography 
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