<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The London gazette.</dc:title><dc:date>1687 April</dc:date><dc:description>Also issued in French ed.: Gazette de Londres.</dc:description><dc:description>Below title: "Published by authority."</dc:description><dc:description>Colophon varies; later issues list Edw. Jones as printer, -1706; M. Jones, 1706- J[acob]. Tonson, -1715; S[amuel]. Buckley, 1716-1730; Edward Owen, 1731-1756; E[dward]. Owen and T[homas]. Harrison (sometimes just Thomas Harrison), 1757-1788. Some colophons lack names.</dc:description><dc:description>Daily</dc:description><dc:description>Imprint from colophon; printer's address changes.</dc:description><dc:description>Includes British and Parliamentary news, marriage and death notices, bankruptcies, official appointments, patent medicine advertisements at end of most issues.</dc:description><dc:description>Indexes are issued with some volumes.</dc:description><dc:description>Issue numbering is somewhat irregular.</dc:description><dc:description>London gazette extraordinary is issued occasionally between regular numbers.</dc:description><dc:description>Numb. 24 (Feb. 1 to 5, 1665 [i.e. 1666])-</dc:description><dc:description>Original editor: Henry Muddiman. (cf. NCBEL).</dc:description><dc:description>Price sometimes at end of colophon; in 18th century sometimes at foot of p. 1.</dc:description><dc:description>Printed in two columns.</dc:description><dc:description>Some issue dates given according to Lady Day dating.</dc:description><dc:description>Supplements accompany some issues; supplements entitled "London gazette extraordinary" accompany issues in 1745, 1755, 1759, 1762, 1777, 1786, and 1799.</dc:description><dc:description>These are variant issues.</dc:description><dc:description>Title from caption.</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>