The Censor
By: no. 1-96; Apr. 11, 1715-June 1, 1717
Publisher: Printed for J. Brown
Published: 1717
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Vol. 1, 2d ed.

Head-pieces.

"On 11 April 1715 ... [Lewis Theobald] began in Mist's journal the Censor, a series of short essays on the model of the Spectator, which appeared three times a week, ceasing with the thirtieth number on 17 June. Eighteen months afterwards they were resumed (1 Jan. 1717) as an independent publication running on to ninety-six numbers. When they were discontinued later in the same year, they were collected and published in three duodecimo volumes."-Dict. of nat. biog., v. 56.

First collected edition of ninety-six essays written by Lewis Theobald and others. Nos. 1-30 originally published 11 April-17 June 1715 in Mist's Journal; nos. 31-96 originally published as a separate newspaper, 1 January-1 June 1717.