- Additional Authors
- Publication Date
- Vol. I. [May 27, 1797]-
- Ceased in 1801?
- Description
- v.; 16 cm (12⁰)
- Uniform Title
- Masquerade (Southampton, England : Annual)
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Alternative Title
- Masquerade
- The masquerade, &c. v. 1-4
- The masquerade v. 5
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Periodicals – England – 18th century.
- Note
- Title pages engraved.
- Chief title repeated as running title, verson, and caption at head of first page of text.
- With title page vignette of masked figures, apparently at a party.
- Below vignette: To be continued annually.
- Vignette for v.5 shows three theatrical masks on a cloud.
- Imprints lack dates; first year of publication from prefatory material in v. 1 (Advertisement, dated 1797).
- Below imprint: I. Girtin del. & sculp. 2. St. Martin's le Grand.
- Imprints vary slightly; v. 2 reads in part: "published by G. & T. Wilkie"; with v. 5, "Champante & Whitrow, Jewry Street" added at end.
- Price below imprint: Price 1s 6d.
- With continuous pagination and signatures.
- Vol. 2 includes queries leaf, and nine final leaves preceded by half-title, with solutions for vols. 1-2; vol. 3 includes three final leaves of solutions.
- Includes riddles, word games, puzzles, suggestions for charades; each issue follows a similar format with groups of puzzles of each type; each volume includes prefatory notes; preface to v. 4 complains of plagiarism.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Indexed In (note)
- NCBEL
- Crane & Kaye
- Times handlist
- Ward, W.S. Index of serials
- English Short Title Catalog
- Numbering (note)
- Intended to be published in January of each calendar year, first issue apparently appeared in May 1797 (cf. T66831).
- Volumes lack chronological designation; dated from prefatory material in each volume, except v. 5 which lacks preface or date in copy cataloged.
- Volume number added to direction line in each issue.
- No more known to have been published.
- Reproduction (note)
- OCLC
- Title
The masquerade. [electronic resource] : A collection of new enigmas, logogriphs, charades, rebusses, queries and transpositions.
- Imprint
[Southampton and London, England] : Printed for the editors by T. Baker, Southampton, & published by G. & T. Wilkie, Paternoster Row, & J. Bell, 148, Oxford Road, [1797]-
- Current Frequency
Annual (Collected issues)
- Series
Eighteenth century collections online.
- Indexed In:
NCBEL, II:1352
Crane & Kaye, 1572
Times handlist, p. 221
Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 99
- Numbering
Intended to be published in January of each calendar year, first issue apparently appeared in May 1797 (cf. T66831).
Volumes lack chronological designation; dated from prefatory material in each volume, except v. 5 which lacks preface or date in copy cataloged.
Volume number added to direction line in each issue.
No more known to have been published.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, P6005.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
Great Britain England Southampton.
Great Britain England London.
- Added Author
Baker, T., printer.
Wilkie, George, publisher.
Girtin, I., engraver.
Champante & Whitrow, booksellers.
Gale (Firm)