The Columbian Telescope and Literary Compiler, Being a Miscellaneous Repository of Literary Productions

• id: 36
• end_date: May 20, 1820
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 7
• proprietors: Samuel H. Davis
• start_date: June 16, 1819
• variant_number: Alexandria 06-01
• notes: This weekly was issued with continuous pagination in quarto format, indicating that Davis intended the paper to be bound in complete volumes; the surviving copies of this title are all bound volumes of the full publication run. That run was one of 51 numbers, or not quite a full year; Davis ceased publication in May 1820 in order to move to Winchester, where he acquired the Republican Constellation, succeeding George McGlassin that June.
• lineage_title: Columbian Telescope
• Related Bios:
  • Samuel Hopkins Davis

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