The general magazine of Arts and Sciences, philosophical, philological, mathematical, and mechanical ... By Benjamin Martin

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  • The general magazine of Arts and Sciences, philosophical, philological, mathematical, and mechanical ... By Benjamin Martin
  • General magazine of arts and sciences (London, England : Cumulation)
  • Martin's magazine
  • Miscellaneous correspondence in prose and verse. [Part VI.] ; Young gentleman and lady's philosophy. Part I.; Natural history of England. Part II.; Philological arts and sciences. Part III.; Institutes of arithmetic, algebra, fluxions, geometry, and mechanics. Part IV.; Biographia philosophia. Part V.
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Imprint
London [England] : printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-street, M DCC LV. [1755]-[1765]
Added name
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782 ed.
Publication year
1755-1765
ESTC No.
P2572
Grub Street ID
419543
Description
v., plates, (some fold.) : ill., tables, diagr., printed music ; 8°.
Note
Edited by: Benjamin Martin

General title pages from v. I, part I, and from v. 14 in red and black

The cumulation divided into six parts, each with individual title; parts 1-4 published in two vols. each, part 5 in four vols., and part 6 is a single volume. A final volume was added to the series. Volumes and parts are individually dated, with dates differing from the general title page. The dates range from 1755 (the general title page to Part I), to 1759 (the first volume of each subsequent part), to 1763 (the second vols. of parts 1-2) and 1764 (the second vol. of parts 3-4). The first two vols. of part 5 are dated 1759, the last two, 1764. Part 6 and the final volume are dated 1764

Annual volumes have re-arranged the contents of monthly numbers into topical parts. Part 6, "Miscellaneous correspondence," includes monthly summaries of current events, lists of books published, poetry and music, tables of economic information, births, marriages, and deaths, and shipping news, retained in 12 separate sequences. Other sections are cumulated from original monthly articles and essays.