The Demetian Mirror

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The Demetian Mirror
The Demetian Mirror or, Aberystwyth reporter, and visitants' informant forming a record of local events, and channel of general information
The Demetian Mirror Aug 15 1840.jpg
Type weekly newspaper
PublisherJohn Cox  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Editor Evan Watkin [*]
Launched15 August 1840  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
City Aberystwyth   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Country Wales

The Demetian Mirror was an English-language newspaper published weekly in Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire in Wales. It contained local news and information. [1]

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised twelve issues of The Demetian Mirror that were published in 1840, from the newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Demetian Mirror at Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales