[The Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure; containing the greatest variety of original pieces, ... embellished with a great variety of prints and maps.]

All titles

• [The Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure; containing the greatest variety of original pieces, ... embellished with a great variety of prints and maps.]
• Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly).
• Complete magazine; The complete magazine
• Traveller.

People / Organizations

• blish'd monthly ("printed by")
• John Payne ("printed for")

Imprint

London [England]: publish'd monthly according to Act of Parliament, by J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster row, [1764

Publication year

1764

ESTC No.

P3014

Grub Street ID

56455

Description

7 v., plates (some fold.) : ill., maps ; 21 cm. (8°)

Note

Title from engraved general title page; monthly issue lacks individual t.p. or wrapper

Short title given as caption on first page of text

Imprint from collected issue title page

Imprint lacks date; year of publication from designation of issue

With printer's ornament on title page

Prefatory note to the reader follows title page in copy cataloged

Direction line of first p. of text reads: Comp. Mag. April 1764

Includes history, current events, politics, essays on social questions, military and civil preferments, theatrical criticism and a list of current performances, poetry, occasional music, current events for each month including marriages, deaths and stock prices; also includes numbered esssays: The Traveller.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. = plate