The Crisis..
Moore, William,attributed name.
[London] : Printed and published for the authors, by T. W. Shaw, in Fleet-Street, opposite Anderton's Coffee House, where letters to the publisher will be thankfully received,
[1775-1776]
Editorship attributed to William Moore, author of the Whisperer, using various pseudonyms (cf. NCBEL).
Some issues have headlines above text which appear as distinctive titles.
Imprint from undated colophon.
Following issue number: To be continued weekly; from no. 76: To be continued every Saturday.
Note on date line: Price two-pence halfpenny.
From no. 51, note following issue number: To be continued weekly, during the present bloody civil war in America and from no. 76 to no. 90, note following issue number: To be continued every Saturday, during the present bloody civil war in America.
With continuous pagination, including the supplement.
Includes strident attacks on Lord North's ministry for his North American policies; laments the political defeat of William Pitt.
Issue no. LII (Saturday, January 13, 1776) has the caption title Scotch Rebels and Traitors Triumphant. It bitterly and satirically denounces British imperial policy in Scotland.
ESTC
NCBEL,
Crane & Kaye,
Times handlist,
First number apparently reissued on Saturday, Jan. 21, 1775.
From no. 2, published on Saturdays.
No. 7 appears to be misdated or dated according to date of composition, as it repeats the date of no. 5 (18 Feb. 1775), but should have been dated 4 Mar. 1775; no. 6 date is 25 Feb. 1775.
No more published.
Has unnumbered supplement: The Crisis. Extraordinary. (Wednesday, August 9, 1775).
Microfilm.
Reprinted in London and in the American colonies, with individual issues appearing as octavo pamphlets; descriptions of these publications appear in Evans (no. 13896-13996).
England London.
Crisis (New York, N.Y. : 1775)