date of Barsetshire Antiquaries Journal

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 09 Dec 2002 18:03 PST

If you search for "Barsetshire" on the Oxford University libraries
catalogue ( http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ ), you'll see that it is
listed as an "imaginary place".  Likewise, Barnes and Noble has a
category for "Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)".  In short,
"Barsetshire" seems to have been invented by the 19th century author
Anthony Trollope.

That being said, would you be interested in the publication date of
Volume 4 a serial called simply, "The Antquaries Journal"?

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 09 Dec 2002 18:04 PST

Sorry, I misspelled one word: I meant "The Antiquaries Journal".

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 10 Dec 2002 07:43 PST

Given the information I have found -- and given that nellie_bly
appears to be in agreement with what I indicated previously -- I would
also be happy to post an answer, if it meets your needs.

Barsetshire is a fictional English county invented by the 19th-century
English novelist Anthony Trollope as a setting for his ecclesiastical
saga,
'The Barchester Chronicles.'  Barsetshire has since been used as a
byword
for the arcane, the antiquarian, the parochial, the old-fashioned and
the
twee, or 'olde worlde.'

According to Adrian James of the Society of Antiquaries of London and
publishers of The Antiquaries Journal (who, by the way, had a good
laugh over my query):

"This periodical is not related to any publication of the Society of
Antiquaries.  I have never heard of it, and it is not listed in either
the
Library of Congress or British Library on-line catalogues.  Given the
jocular title, it probably doesn't exist."
http://www.sal.org.uk/

If you find this information useful, I'd appreciate your allowing me
to post it as an answer.

Thank you.

Nellie Bly