Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle. Boston: Mein and Fleeming, 1767. Printed broadsheet, 265 x 202 mm. Signed in text by Mein and Fleeming at bottom. 2 pp, recto and verso. Heavy chipping to margins, with slight losses to text, stains, browning. Prospectus for a new newspaper, the Boston Chronicle, dated [October] 22nd, 1767 (the month not legible due to losses at margin). Below the title announcing the publication of the new paper are five "Conditions" in two columns describing how the paper is to look, what it will cost, and how frequently it will be printed, followed by a notification that "Subscriptions are taken in by John Mein at the London Book-Store, North Side of King-street." On the verso are three columns of detailed plans for publication. This would have served also as a specimen of what the paper would look like, using the same size sheet and typefaces as the final product. The Boston Chronicle was first published in December, 1767, with John Mein as editor and John Fleeming as printer. Mein was a fierce Loyalist amid growing anti-British sentiment, and he publicly accused some Boston merchants of breaking British trade regulations in the newspaper. His attacks on Whigs irritated enough local readers to lead them to ransack the paper's offices, and Mein fled back to his native Scotland in 1769. Fleeming kept the paper in print until June 25th, 1770. He stayed in Boston until the withdrawal of British troops in 1776. Ford Broadsides 1418; Shipton-Mooney 41736.
Proposals for Printing a New Weekly Paper, called The Boston Chronicle. Boston: Mein and Fleeming, 1767. Printed broadsheet, 265 x 202 mm. Signed in text by Mein and Fleeming at bottom. 2 pp, recto and verso. Heavy chipping to margins, with slight losses to text, stains, browning. Prospectus for a new newspaper, the Boston Chronicle, dated [October] 22nd, 1767 (the month not legible due to losses at margin). Below the title announcing the publication of the new paper are five "Conditions" in two columns describing how the paper is to look, what it will cost, and how frequently it will be printed, followed by a notification that "Subscriptions are taken in by John Mein at the London Book-Store, North Side of King-street." On the verso are three columns of detailed plans for publication. This would have served also as a specimen of what the paper would look like, using the same size sheet and typefaces as the final product. The Boston Chronicle was first published in December, 1767, with John Mein as editor and John Fleeming as printer. Mein was a fierce Loyalist amid growing anti-British sentiment, and he publicly accused some Boston merchants of breaking British trade regulations in the newspaper. His attacks on Whigs irritated enough local readers to lead them to ransack the paper's offices, and Mein fled back to his native Scotland in 1769. Fleeming kept the paper in print until June 25th, 1770. He stayed in Boston until the withdrawal of British troops in 1776. Ford Broadsides 1418; Shipton-Mooney 41736.
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