Shelfmark
Iaa2.5.20
Main entry--uniform title
Magazine of magazines (London, England : 1750)
Title
The magazine of magazines, compiled from original pieces, with extracts from the most celebrated books and periodical compositions published in Europe, for the year 1751. The whole forming a compleat literary and historical account of that period. Illustrated with maps and cuts. Vol. II. To be continued monthly.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for William Owen, at Homer's Head, near Temple-Bar,, MDCCLI. [1751]
Physical description
iv, 578, [14] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Note
Engraved title page.
Note
Copy being catalogued: Volume II only, as collected annually with added title page and preface; containing numbers for Jan.-June 1751.
Note
Monthly issues have caption title: The magazine of magazines.
Note
10 volumes published: No.1 (July 1750)-[No.10] (April 1751).
Note
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.
Note
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.
Note
Engraved frontispiece by Mosley after F. Hayman.
Citation/references note
NCBEL, II:1300
Citation/references note
Crane & Kaye, 1558
Citation/references note
ESTC, P505109
Provenance
20th-century bookplate and booklabel of Eton College Library.
Provenance
19th-century ownership inscription of B. Freeman in ink, and later inscription of W. Freeman in pencil.
Provenance
Tipped-in sale particulars for the work as lot 74; with ms. note "Sotheby sale 9.4.[19]56".
Binding
18th-century marbled paper boards, rebacked in 20th-century goatskin; five raised bands; red goatskin spine label. Tipped in conservator's report of William Taunton, August 1985.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Az.7, Fm.7.18, Gray 1751.
Subject
Gray, Thomas, 1716 - 1771 Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Added entry--name
Gray, Thomas, 1716 - 1771 Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Added entry--name
Owen, William, ? - 1793 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Taunton, William, fl. 1985 - 1990 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B45057