The novelist's magazine; or, Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany

All titles

• The novelist's magazine; or, Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany
• Novelist's magazine; or, Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany (London, England : Weekly)
• Novelist's magazine; Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany; The novelist's magazine

People / Organizations

• Harrison and Co. (Music publishers : Paternoster Row, London, England). ("printed for")

Imprint

London [England] : printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster- Row, and sold by all other booksellers, stationers and newscarriers, in town and country, <1780-1788>

Publication year

1780-1788

ESTC No.

P6358

Grub Street ID

419628

Description

v., plates ; 23 cm (8°)

Note

Volume title page, for issues to be bound together when a volume of serialized fiction is completed, follows the wrapper title in the last weekly issue of the novels for that volume

Volume title pages are engraved, with volume numbers, a list of works included in that volume, with a vignette above the imprint

An internal title page for the individual work is bound in the first weekly issue of the novel being serialized, and title page imprint includes year of publication for that novel

Imprints lack date; years of publication from reference sources

Imprints vary slightly

Weekly issue price: six-pence

At head of wrapper title: To be continued weekly

With frontis. plates in each issue for that novel

Some wrappers carry instructions to the binder for placement of plates

Includes serialized novels, histories, romances, or memoirs, including translations of foreign publications. Works are normally completed in three or four issues; volumes apparently appear three or four times a year

Description based on: [Vol. XII.] Number CLXXXIV. [1783]; title from wrapper.