Publication & Appearance Dates - Features
Publication and Appearance Dates
Resolving the disjunction between title page dates
and actual publication dates of the Quarterly Review 1809-24
A note on sources: The main source for the appearance dates recorded in the following table is the publication announcements in a contemporary London newspaper, the Courier. These advertisements have been checked against a number of additional sources, including another newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, and the Monthly Literary Advertiser. References in manuscript letters have also proved useful, but, for various reasons, these sources can sometimes be misleading and must be used with care; however, I have been uniquely aided by an additional reliable source, pencil notations on the title pages of many of Anne Cleaver's bound volumes of the journal (present writer's collection). Anne Cleaver, the wife of the Bishop of Asaph, was a resident of Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire and a friend of Sir Thomas Henry Browne, Felicia Hemans's brother, to whom in her old age she presented her copies of the journal. Cleaver realised that there was significance in the journal's chronic lateness, significance later readers would perhaps miss when contemplating a well-ordered title page. Keeping in mind the high status the review-type journal aspired to, the Quarterly Review's habitual lateness put the lie to the haughty self-importance of this expensive, respectable flag-ship publication of the Tory establishment. By carefully recording the date when she received her copy, Anne Cleaver preserved for us a hint of the dissatisfaction, disorder and embarrassment that Gifford's tardiness engendered.
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Volume |
Number |
Title Page |
Appearance Date |
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I |
Feb. 1809 |
1 Mar. 1809 |
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I |
May 1809 |
30 May 1809 |
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II |
Aug. 1809 |
29 Aug. 1809 |
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II |
Nov. 1809 |
23 Dec. 1809 |
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III |
Feb. 1810 |
31 Mar. 1810 |
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III |
May 1810 |
21 July 1810 |
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IV |
Aug. 1810 |
27 Oct. 1810 |
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IV |
Nov. 1810 |
29 Dec. 1810 |
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V |
Feb. 1811 |
10 Apr. 1811 |
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V |
May 1811 |
1 July 1811 |
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VI |
Aug. 1811 |
21 Oct. 1811 |
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VI |
Dec. 1811 |
1 Feb. 1812 |
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VII |
Mar. 1812 |
11 May 1812 |
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VII |
June 1812 |
13 Aug. 1812 |
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VIII |
Sept. 1812 |
15 Dec. 1812 |
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VIII |
Dec. 1812 |
5 Mar. 1813 |
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IX |
Mar. 1813 |
16 June 1813 |
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IX |
July 1813 |
25 Aug. 1813 |
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X |
Oct. 1813 |
18 Dec. 1813 |
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X |
Jan. 1814 |
1 Apr. 1814 |
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XI |
Apr. 1814 |
16 July 1814 |
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XI |
July 1814 |
8 Nov. 1814 |
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XII |
Oct. 1814 |
6 Jan. 1815 |
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XII |
Jan. 1815 |
23 Mar. 1815 |
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XIII |
Apr. 1815 |
20 June 1815 |
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XIII |
July 1815 |
1 Dec. 1815 |
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XIV |
Oct. 1815 |
12 Mar. 1816 |
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XIV |
Jan. 1816 |
18 May 1816 |
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XV |
Apr. 1816 |
10 Aug. 1816 |
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XV |
July 1816 |
12 Nov. 1816 |
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XVI |
Oct. 1816 |
11 Feb. 1817 |
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XVI |
Jan. 1817 |
17 May 1817 |
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XVII |
Apr. 1817 |
6 Sept. 1817 |
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XVII |
July 1817 |
1 Dec. 1817 |
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XVIII |
Oct. 1817 |
21 Feb. 1818 |
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XVIII |
Jan. 1818 |
9 June 1818 |
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XIX |
Apr. 1818 |
26 Sept. 1818 |
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XIX |
July 1818 |
2 Feb. 1819 |
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XX |
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Index |
May and June 1820 |
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XXI |
Jan. 1819 |
4 June 1819 |
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XXI |
Apr. 1819 |
10 Sept. 1819 |
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XXII |
July 1819 |
11 Dec. 1819 |
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XXII |
Jan. 1820 |
17 Mar. 1820 |
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XXIII |
May 1820 |
27 May 1820 |
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XXIII |
July 1820 |
5 Oct. 1820 |
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XXIV |
Oct. 1820 |
19 Dec. 1820 |
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XXIV |
Jan. 1821 |
12 or 19 Apr. 1821 |
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XXV |
Apr. 1821 |
28 June 1821 |
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XXV |
July 1821 |
17 Oct. 1821 |
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XXVI |
Oct. 1821 |
22 Dec. 1821 |
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XXVI |
Jan. 1822 |
30 Mar. 1822 |
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XXVII |
Apr. 1822 |
4 July 1822 |
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XXVII |
July 1822 |
23 Oct. 1822 |
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XXVIII |
Oct. 1822 |
15 Feb. 1823 |
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XXVIII |
Jan. 1823 |
8 July 1823 |
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XXIX |
Apr. 1823 |
27 Sept. 1823 |
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XXIX |
July 1823 |
30 Dec. 1823 |
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XXX |
Oct. 1823 |
17 April 1824 |
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XXX |
Jan. 1824 |
28 Aug. 1824 |
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XXXI |
Apr. 1824 |
30 Dec. 1824 |
