LEADER 00000nas 2200565 a 4500 001 ocm99882539e 003 UnM 005 20010523182722.0 006 m g d 007 cr bn |||a|bb| 008 970304d17131714enkcr n s 0uuua0eng d 035 R220596 040 Cu-RivES|cCu-RivES|edcrb 245 04 The British merchant; or, Commerce preserv'd: :|bin answer to The Mercator, or Commerce retriev'd. To be publish'd every Tuesday and Friday. 246 3 Commerce preserved 246 30 Commerce preserv'd 260 London [England] :|bprinted for A[nn]. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane,|c[1713-1714]. 300 103 v. 310 Semiweekly 362 0 Numb. 1. (Friday, August 7, 1713.)- 362 1 Ceased with: numb. 103. (Friday, July 30. 1714.).|zCf. McLeod. 500 Prime movers and contributors include: Charles King, Henry Martin, and Joshua Gee. 500 Title from caption. 500 Imprint from colophon. 500 Imprint varies; no. 33-42: "Printed for Ferd. Burleigh, Jun."; no. 43-100: "Printed for Ferd. Burleigh"; Ann Baldwin's name reappears on no. 101. 500 Originally issued as a single half-sheet; later issues ran to as many as six folio pages. 500 Published as a Whig response to the Tory "Mercator", edited by Daniel Defoe; appears to have been more interested in party politics than economic or foreign news, apart from its detailed account of the import trade. Cf. McLeod. 500 Reproduction of original in the British Library. 580 Reprinted in 1721, 1743, 1744, 1748. 600 10 Defoe, Daniel,|d1661?-1731.|tMercator, or Commerce retriev'd. 650 0 Imports|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y18th century|vNewspapers |vEarly works to 1800. 650 0 International trade|xHistory|y18th century|vNewspapers |vEarly works to 1800. 651 0 Great Britain|xCommerce|vNewspapers|vEarly works to 1800. 700 1 King, Charles,|dactive 1721. 700 1 Martin, Henry,|d-1721. 700 1 Gee, Joshua. 830 0 Early English books online. 856 40 |uhttps://hull.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003& res_id=xri:eebo&rft_val_fmt=&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:190164 936 EEBO-EETS