Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Rush-light ... / by Peter Porcupine.
Call Number
10823.259.2
Lapidus 5.1065
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6m312011w
Publisher
New York : Published by William Cobbett, No. 141, Water-Street, where all Communications to the Editor are requested to be addressed, post paid, [1800]
Language
English
Date Created
1800-1801
Extent
7 parts ; 12⁰.
[V. 1, no. 1-6; v. 2, no. 1] 15th Feb.-30th Aug. 1800.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959; 2021.
References
ESTC P6574
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Nos. 1 and 2 have cover-title, with contents and imprint, the remainder caption titles only. No. 1, 15th Feb.; no. 2, 28th Feb. (p. 112: End of no. II.--March 10, 1800); no. 3, 15th March (p. 160: End of no. III--March 24); no. 4, 31st March (p. 208: End of no. IV--April 14); no. 5, 30th April; no. 6, 30th Aug.; "no. VII--being the first number of volume II" undated, has caption title "The Republican Rush-light."
No. 6 dated at end (p. 309) London, August 30, 1800. At end of no. 7 (p. 48) "Finis."
Vol. 1, no. 2 (variant) in: Cobbett's pamphlets, v. 1, no. 5.
Essays denouncing the new American republic, its founders and its government. Issue no. 6 ends with a letter addressed "To the people of the United States of America," signed: William Cobbett, and dated at end: London, August 30, 1800.

Discovery Information

Subject
Rush, Benjamin 1745-1813—Periodicals
United States—Politics and government—1797-1801—Periodicals
Periodicals

Physical Characteristics

File Count
275

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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