BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

    BOSTON EVENING-POST

    It has already been noted334 that Thomas Fleet inserted in the last issue of the Weekly Rehearsal, dated 11 August, 1735, numbered 202, an advertisement stating that thereafter the Weekly Rehearsal would be published on Monday evening; and that on the next Monday, 18 August, instead of continuing the Weekly Rehearsal, Fleet brought out the first issue of the Boston Evening-Post,335 numbered 203.336 The advertisement, quoted on a previous page,337 printed in the Weekly Rehearsal of 11 August was also printed in the Boston Evening-Post of 18 August, but with this addition (p. 2/2):

    N.B. At the Desire of several Gentlemen, it has been tho’t advisable to change the Title, as well as the Time of Publishing, and will for the Future come out under the Title of,

    The Boston Evening-Post:

    . . .

    The second issue of the Boston Evening-Post, that of 25 August, 1735, was numbered 2.

    The last issue of the Boston Evening-Post was that of 24 April, 1775, which contained this notice (p. 2/3):

    The Printers of the Boston Evening-Post hereby inform the Town that they shall desist publishing their Papers after this Day, till Matters are in a more settled State.

    The bibliographical details relating to the Boston Evening-Post are arranged under the following four heads:

    • I. Titles.
    • II. Days of Publication.
    • III. Publishers, Printers, and Places of Publication.
    • IV. Devices.

    I TITLES

    1735, August 18: The Boston Evening-Post.

    II DAYS OF PUBLICATION

    Monday.

    III PUBLISHERS, PRINTERS, AND PLACES OF PUBLICATION

    1735, August 18: Published and printed by Thomas Fleet at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill.

    1758, July 17: Last issue published by Thomas Fleet.338

    1758, July 24: Published and printed by Thomas Fleet and John Fleet at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill.339

    IV DEVICES

    1735, August 18–1759, March 12: No device.

    1759, March 19: In oval a Heart over a Crown; resting on the oval is a bird with a letter in its mouth, and underneath a scroll with the words, “THOs. & JOHN FLEET.” The whole inclosed within a border.

    1760, February 18: Same device, but without the border.

    1765, November 4: Same device, except that there are no names in the scroll.

    1774, December 12: Heart and Crown, but of an entirely new design.340