The spirit of the times
Subtitle: in a series of observations on the important events of the age ...
By: by Simon Search
Contributors: Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Series: Pamphlets -- [1768-1798].
Publisher: Sold by H. Gardner ..., J. Evans ...
Published: 1790
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: In several parts, presumably issued consecutively, some with individual t. p.s.

Editor: "Simon Search" is a pseudonym.

Title page of part [1] includes vignette showing a magnifying glass on a pedestal focusing light on its own mirrored reflection.

Title proper repeated as caption in each part.

Cover is also t.p.

Some parts are further divided into "Letter I" and "Letter II."

John Adams Library has no. II, no. III, and no. VIII.

Issues published in 1790 have "Politics" on the title page; the first issue of 1791, part [9], includes the word "Literature"; some issues have only caption titles.

"The nation, the law, and the king! To the members of the Revolution society ... Simon Search ... wishes health and happiness ... London, November 1790": 12 p., between p. 194 and [195], with its own t.p. and separate signatures, but apparently an integral part of the book, since the catchword on p. 194 "to" presumably refers to the sub-title "To the members of the Revolution Society."

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

Includes bibliographical references.

ESTC, P6655

NCBEL, II:1288

Crane & Kaye, 839

Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 153

Catalog of Brit. univ. libraries, p. 358

Also available on microfilm (part [1] only; pp. 1-40). Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 2421, no. 01).

Also available on microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, [1976]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; no. 14555).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.
Table of contents: title: Politics: an account of the English commemoration of the first anniversary of the French revolution, in a letter to Jos. Priestley; title: [The same, continued; without t.p.]; title: Political and philosophical reflections on the Bastille, in a letter to the Earl of Charlemont; title: A letter to the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt on our difference with Spain; title: A letter to the people of England, giving an account of the Anglo-Gallic festival at Nantz; title: Letter to the Right Hon. William Pitt, continued [without t.p.]; title: Letter to the Right Hon William Pitt, continued [wd continuation, without t.p.]; title: Letter to the Right. Hon. the Earl of Charlemont, continued. Anniversary meeting of the Revolution society; title: The nation, the law, and the king!; title: Literature: an enquiry into the utility of aknowledge of the Latin and Greek languages ... / Dr. Rush of Philadelphia; title: An account of the syndical chambers of France and Englad ... / M. Panckoucke [without t.p.].