The universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure, for

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• The universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure, for
• Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly)
• Universal museum, and complete magazine; The universal museum and complete magazine, for ...

People / Organizations

• John Payne ("printed for")

Imprint

London, England]: Printed for J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster-Row, <1764-

Added name

Payne, J., publisher.

Publication year

1764-1772

ESTC No.

P6375

Grub Street ID

419633

Description

v., plates : ill., tables, ports., music ; 21 cm (8°)

Note

Portion of title repeated as caption in each issue

With title page vignette of the British Museum between lines of title

With headpieces

Issue date repeated below caption

Title page includes issue date, description of plates, table of contents

Verso of title page includes table of stock prices

Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of issues

Direction line reads: Museum [date]

Printed in two columns; text begins with factotum initial

Includes essays on the arts, on exotic places, natural history, medicine, domestic arts, politics and foreign affairs, theater, reviews of new books, stock prices, and monthly accounts of current events including births, marriages, deaths, preferments, bankrupts, and poetry. Numbered essays include: Witting's chronicle and The hermit in town

Description based on: January, 1767.