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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 12, 1736
Page
4
A fragmentary notice announces next week’s publication of the Eighth Edition with large additions. The letter addressed to N. N. D. D appears in a phileleuthfrus lipsiensis work. The text notes a cenus hominum list of those eager to lead in all things, though the meaning is obscured by garbled OCR.
Benjamin Williams at the Blue Bell Strand near York Buildings in the Strand offers dreble refined loaf sugar at seven pence three farthings per pound and proclaims cheaper than any London grocer. He also sells finest teas chocolate and freshly roasted coffee with various grocery wares.
An 18th century advertisement lists works by William M Wurston Jr and others. It promotes Enlarg’d with an Appeniure presenting a new Deluge theory and the Earths creation, plus related theological and historical volumes. Prices range from 6d to 1s 6d, with separate Appendix offers.
Two pocket volumes priced five shillings bound. A translated English edition from French detailing spa waters at Vichy and the German spa towns with their diversions amusements and notable visitors. Ward and Chandler publish from Temple Bar Ship in London and at Scarborough Span. Over 3000 copies sold in France in a year.
A weekly entertainment pamphlet by Distillers Society promised to readers. It includes The Distillers Case and opinion, The London Spy, a world news collection, distillery revival methods, housewife guidance, the Family Physician recipes, and The Merry Companion songs. Printed for Z. Wade and Comp. and sold by News Carriers.
This Day publishes a beautiful edition in temporary form of Charles XI King of Sweden by Voltaire translated from the French. The sixth edition with index, price 3 shillings, printed for C. Davis and sold by J. Osborn at the Golden Ball. Also notices of other works including Letters concerning the English Nation and An Essay upon the civil Wars of France.
An expanded Dublin London edition announces the second printing of A Vindication of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Winchester against calumny. It advertises Proposals for the Revival of Christianity and lists Bishop Atterbury Sermons Swift Miscellanies and The Hibernian Patriot, along with The Revolutions of Poland translated from French. Prices and availability are noted at T. Cooper’s Globe in Pater-noster-row.
Postscript notes current city chatter of Tartars vs Ruffian Detachment engagement with heavy fighting. Tartars defeated and dispersed while exiled Ram plots 16,000 troops to rejoin Count Munich. Pisa letters hint at Tuscany evacuation delays due to Vienna Spaincession deal. Constantinople reports unrest and Seraglio fires. Dauphine mails say army reform paused. Paris names naval officers to new commands.
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