17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
from the library of the Revd Dr Charles Burney (1757-1817) , it includes 700 volumes of 17th- , 18th- , and 19th-century newspapers, dating from 1603 to 1817.
his outstanding newspaper collection begins with what are actually Parliamentary papers from 1603: the earliest items which are recognisable as newspapers date from the early 1620s. It is in 18th-century London newspapers, however, that the collection is particularly rich: all the major titles are included, such as the Daily Courant from 1702 to 1735, the first daily newspaper published in London, and the London Gazette from 1665. Periodicals are also included, such as Addison and Steele's famous Tatler (1709-1711) and their Spectator (1711-1712).
Also represented are English provincial titles from 1712, such as the Stamford Mercury of 1728, Irish newspapers (the earliest being the Dublin Intelligence of 1691), Scottish ones from 1708 onwards, and many 18th-century American ones too, including the New England Courant (1721-1723), on which Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) worked, before he moved from Boston to Rhode Island after having published the paper's final issue on 25 June 1726.