The Magazine of magazines

All titles

• The Magazine of magazines
• Magazine of magazines (London, England : 1750)
• Magazine of magazines, compiled from original pieces, with extracts from the most celebrated books and periodical compositions published in Europe, for the year ... . The whole forming a compleat literary and historical account of that period. Illustrated with maps and cuts. Vol. ... To be continued monthly [1750]-1751

People / Organizations

• William Owen ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for William Owen, at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar, [1750]-MDCCLI [1751]

Added name

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.; Owen, W. (William), -1793, bookseller.

Publication year

1750-1751

ESTC No.

P505109

Grub Street ID

436070

Description

10 v., leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 8°.

Note

Title from caption

Collected annually with added title page. Annual title taken from vol.2; title page to vol.1 (1750) not seen by cataloguer

Imprint from vol.2 added title page dated 1751

With ornamental headpiece above caption

Issue dates from captions

Issue for Feb. 1751 includes an unauthorized version of Thomas Gray's 'Elegy written in a country churchyard' (p.160-161). Gray had the Elegy published in a quarto pamphlet (ESTC T71256) one day earlier on 15 February 1751. See 'An Elegy written in a country churchyard ... The three manuscripts' Primrose Hill, 1933

Includes extracted articles and essays from major periodical publications of the time, summaries of current events, puzzles, correspondence, poetry selections, births, marriages, deaths, preferments, military and shipping news, occational lists of imports with prices, book reviews and lists of current publications.