Shelfmark
Fk.2.12 - Fk.2.14
Main entry--corporate name
Memoirs of literature. (Cumulation) (London, England).
Title
Memoirs of literature. Containing a weekly account of the state of learning, both at home and abroad.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by J[ames]. Roberts: And sold by A[nn]. Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXII [1712].
Physical description
4v ; 35cm. (Fo.);
Note
Previously: Dm.2.14-16.
Note
Volume I. (For the years MDCCX. and MDCCXI.)-volume IV. (For the year MDCCXIV.).
Note
Published annually, 1712-1714 and biennially, 1712.
Note
Edited by Michel de la Roche (cf. NCBEL).
Note
Subtitle varies.
Note
Imprints vary; later issues list J[ames]. Roberts only.
Note
Consists primarily of book reviews, essays on literature, and some advertisements.
Note
Each volume has separate register and pagination; format changes after vol. 1; from "Advertisement": "Being inform'd that the readers would be better pleas'd to have these Memoirs pinted in quarto, I shall publish them in that size for the time to come.".
Note
Each volume includes indexes, some with supplement.
Note
Cumulates the weekly, biweekly and monthly issues.
Note
Eton has four volumes in three - vols 3 and 4 are bound together.
Citation/references note
NCBEL, II:1294; Times handlist, p. 36-37; McLeod, W. and V. Graphical directory, 1702-1714, p.28-29; ESTC P2183
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Vol. I-IV (1710/1711-1714). Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (English Literary Periodicals; reel 145).
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Gale Group, 2002. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 370. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 12930, no. 02).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Binding
19th-century? brown calf quarter binding; red and blue marbled paper covered boards; six raised bands (folio), five raised bands (quartos).
Subject
Books Reviews Periodicals Early works to 1800.
Subject
Literature, English Periodicals Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Roberts, James, 1668 or 9 - 1754 printer, Printer.
Added entry--name
Baldwin, Ann, 1658 - 1713 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B20287