Pt. 1. Beginnings. First impressions: Dublin and London to 1699 -- Pt. 2. London. The shock of the normal: from temple to the Tale (1693-1705) -- Material voices: the Bickerstaff effect (1705-1710) -- Politics and permanence: Miscellanies, politics, and a Proposal declined (1710-1714). Pt. 3. Dublin. The Irish patriot in print (1720-1725) -- Delegating in London, recouping in Dublin: Travels, Miscellanies, the Intelligencer and A modest proposal (1726-1729) -- The works of J.S, D.D, D.S.P.D. (1731-1735) -- Pt. 4. Into the future. Ending and going on (1736-1765).
Summary:
"The journal's unique selling point was its promise to answer readers' questions: focusing on what Berry identifies as 'the concerns of the middling sort' of both sexes, it was ideally pitched for popular consumption. Among other printers, Richard Baldwin (c. 1653-1698), a voluminous trade publisher and printer of popular Whig polemic, was heavily involved. The flimsy half-sheet was printed on both sides, with advertisements at the end; the questions and answers were crammed into double columns of patchily impressed small type; literal errors and mis-sorted and reversed letters were frequent; and the advertisements rarely strayed far beyond Dunton's own projects. One hallmark, typical of the lower end of the market, was last-minute switching to smaller type as space ran out, revealing a failure of the process by which, in Gaskell's words, 'the compositor - or sometimes the master or overseer - "cast off" the copy by counting words and by computation according to the sizes of type and page that had been decided on'"-- Provided by publisher.
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