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Newspaper edited by the famed Jonathan Swift...
Newspaper edited by the famed Jonathan Swift...
Item # 683123
August 07, 1713
THE EXAMINER, London, Aug. 7, 1713
* Rare 18th century publication
This editorial-format newspaper was edited by the famed Jonathan Swift at this time (of Gulliver's Travels fame), It promoted a Tory perspective on British politics, at a time when Queen Anne had replaced Whig ministers with Tories.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper as was typical of the day, 7 1/2 by 13 inches, nice condition.
AI notes: In the early 1700s, The Examiner was a short-lived but politically influential London newspaper founded in 1710 during the last years of Queen Anne's reign. It was established by Tory writers as a counter to the Whig-dominated press and served as a mouthpiece for the Tory government led by Robert Harley and Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. One of its most notable editors was Jonathan Swift, the satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, who used the paper to advocate for conservative values, attack Whig leaders, and defend the government's controversial peace negotiations with France that would lead to the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). Swift’s contributions, written with sharp wit and rhetorical power, elevated the paper's prominence and gave it significant political weight. Though The Examiner ceased publication around 1714, following the death of Queen Anne and the fall of the Tory ministry, it played a key role in the political pamphlet wars of its time and is remembered as a prime example of early 18th-century partisan journalism.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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