The New universal magazine; or Gentleman and lady's polite instructor in every subject that is proper to display nature; to promote virtue; to help agreeable conversation; and to form the judgment ... Illustrated with a great number of copper plates

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  • The New universal magazine; or Gentleman and lady's polite instructor in every subject that is proper to display nature; to promote virtue; to help agreeable conversation; and to form the judgment ... Illustrated with a great number of copper plates
  • New universal magazine; Gentleman and lady's polite instructor; New universal magazine: or, gentleman and lady's polite instructor; The new universal magazine; The Inspector
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Imprint
London, England] : By S. Crowder & H. Woodgate booksellers, at the Golden Ball in Pater Noster Row, -1755.
Publication year
1751-1755
ESTC No.
P2511
Grub Street ID
56177
Description
8 v., plates (some fold.) : ill., tables ; 8°.
Note
Title page engraved

Title repeated as caption at head of first page of text in each monthly issue

Imprint from title page; imprint includes year of publication

Printed in two columns, with ornamental headpiece above caption

Monthly numbers include undated, unpaginated section of a general dictionary, collated for the preceding six months in each volume and bound in front of the collected monthly issues

Includes general articles on the social and practical sciences, history, selections from printed work; plates include new inventions, plants and animals, scenes of travel and history

A numbered monthly column: 'The Instructor', dated the first of the following month; a section of selected poetry; and a register of current events: 'The political state of Europe', are included in each number. The register includes domestic news, bills of mortality and stock prices

Description based on: Vol. VIII. [July-Dec.1755]; title from title page.