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BICKERSTAFF (Isaac). The Tatler Reviv'd: or, The Christian Philosopher and Politician. Numb. I. Tuesday, March 13, 1750. To be continued Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.1750
London: Printed by W. Owen, Folio (308 x 188 mm), issue no. I only, single sheet printed on both sides in double column, sometime bound with similar items now disbound, stab holes to gutter margin. "The Tatler Revived, or, The Christian Philosopher and Politician began publication on Tuesday, 13 March 1750 one week before Johnson's Rambler. It was printed on half a sheet of stamped paper, cost two pence, and was to be continued three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the publication days of the original Tatler. It was advertised as continuing thus for eight weeks until No 24 of Saturday, 5 May. At this point a metamorphosis took place. An announcement was made that the numbers already printed would be collected with changes in an octavo pamphlet to be called The Christian Philosopher and Politician which was to be continued in a sheet and a half octavo on Saturday mornings. No. 2 of the Christian Philosopher and Politician was advertised for the following Saturday, 12 May, and issues continued weekly to No 12 on Saturday, 21 July 1750, which completed a first volume. Vol. II, No 1 was announced on 28 July and at least six weekly numbers appear to have been published, the last on Saturday, 1 September 1750."—Woodruff. Woodruff, The Tatler Revived, 1750: A Competitor of the Rambler. The Review of English Studies New Series, Vol. 26, No. 102 (May, 1975), pp. 174-18.
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