Volume title pages lack chronological designation.

Monthly issues unnumbered.

First monthly issue [May 1760] lacks designation.

First and last volumes include less than 1 year's issues.

No more published.

Editor: William Dodd.

Vol. 1-7 have engraved title pages; title page for v. 8 is letterpress.

Title repeated as running title.

Monthly issues have caption title and date of issue at head of first page of text.

Imprints to v. 1-7 lack dates; last year of publication from v. 8 imprint, first year of publication from dates of issues.

Frontis. = portrait plate; most portraits are of early church fathers.

Includes Christian church history, biographies, essays on morals and theology, religious poetry, occasional hymns with music, correspondence, lists of ecclesiastical preferments and chronologies of important events.

Reproduction of original from the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements

Collects monthly issues of The Christian's magazine.

Christian's magazine

Treasury of divine knowledge

New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1303

Roscoe, A82

English short title catalogue, ESTCP3101.

Crane, R.S. Census of British newspapers and periodicals, 1620-1800, 108

Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Fathers of the church > Popular works > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Christian poetry, English > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.

Religious biography > Periodicals > Early works to 1800.