The World
By: by Adam Fitz-Adam
Edition: A new ed.
Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English essays
Notes: Originally published in 209 weekly numbers from Jan. 4, 1753 to Dec. 30, 1756, with Edward Moore, the Earl of Chesterfield, R.O. Cambridge and Horace Walpole as the principal contributors. Moore was editor and contributed sixty-one papers.

Engraved title vignettes.

Each vol. includes index.

Vol. 4 includes "A World extraordinary" following no. 209, and "Names of the authors of The World" at end.

Includes bibliographical references (Winship, G.p. , Jr. "The printing history of The World" in Studies in the early English periodical, edited by Richmond P. Bond (Chapel Hill, 1957) , p. [183]-195).
Table of contents: title: V.1. no. 1-52 (1753); title: v. 2. no. 53-104 (1754).; title: v. 3. no. 105-156 (1755).; title: v. 4. no. 105-209 (1756).