The Rehearsal
Published: 1708
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Vol. 1, no. 1 appeared as: The Observator.

In the numeration v 1, no 65 is omitted.

Caption title. Title-pages read: A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the first[-fourth] volume of the Rehearsals. By Philalethes [i.e. Charles Leslie] ... London, Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1708-09.

Started in opposition to Tutchin's Observator and De Foe's Review. Pub. at first weekly, on Saturdays, afterwards on Wednesdays also, beginning with Apr. 10, 1706. The title was borrowed from the play by the Duke of Buckingham. It was an open secret that Leslie was the author.