• Abbreviations. Part 1 General introduction: "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office; the register office and the background of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; the "Covent-Garden Journal". Part 2 Textual introduction: the copy-text and its treatment; the apparatus; collation. Part 3 "A Plan of the Universal Register Office". Part 4 The "Covent-Garden" Journal". Appendices: two columns of doubtful authorship from the "Court of Censorial Enquiry"; the "Modern History" columns; list of emendations - "A Plan..."; list of substantive emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal"; list of accidentals emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal", "Covent-Garden" columns, "Court of Enquiry" columns of doubtful authorship; historical collation - "A Plan..."; historical collation - "Covent-Garden Journal"; corrections and revisions in the Bodleian copy of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; textual notes; word-division; press-variants and bibliographical descriptions. Index.

`The texts have been brilliantly edited by Professor Bertrand Goldgar. The challenge posed by this form of ephemeral material is prodigious and it is hard to imagine how the job could bave been better done.Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History

• Abbreviations. Part 1 General introduction: "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office; the register office and the background of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; the "Covent-Garden Journal". Part 2 Textual introduction: the copy-text and its treatment; the apparatus; collation. Part 3 "A Plan of the Universal Register Office". Part 4 The "Covent-Garden" Journal". Appendices: two columns of doubtful authorship from the "Court of Censorial Enquiry"; the "Modern History" columns; list of emendations - "A Plan..."; list of substantive emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal"; list of accidentals emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal", "Covent-Garden" columns, "Court of Enquiry" columns of doubtful authorship; historical collation - "A Plan..."; historical collation - "Covent-Garden Journal"; corrections and revisions in the Bodleian copy of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; textual notes; word-division; press-variants and bibliographical descriptions. Index.

`The texts have been brilliantly edited by Professor Bertrand Goldgar. The challenge posed by this form of ephemeral material is prodigious and it is hard to imagine how the job could bave been better done.Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History

• Abbreviations. Part 1 General introduction: "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office; the register office and the background of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; the "Covent-Garden Journal". Part 2 Textual introduction: the copy-text and its treatment; the apparatus; collation. Part 3 "A Plan of the Universal Register Office". Part 4 The "Covent-Garden" Journal". Appendices: two columns of doubtful authorship from the "Court of Censorial Enquiry"; the "Modern History" columns; list of emendations - "A Plan..."; list of substantive emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal"; list of accidentals emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal", "Covent-Garden" columns, "Court of Enquiry" columns of doubtful authorship; historical collation - "A Plan..."; historical collation - "Covent-Garden Journal"; corrections and revisions in the Bodleian copy of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; textual notes; word-division; press-variants and bibliographical descriptions. Index.

`The texts have been brilliantly edited by Professor Bertrand Goldgar. The challenge posed by this form of ephemeral material is prodigious and it is hard to imagine how the job could bave been better done.Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History