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The new magazine of knowledge concerning heaven and hell, and the universal world of nature; or, Grand museum of intellectual, rational, and scientific truths ... By a society of gentlemen

Title
The new magazine of knowledge concerning heaven and hell, and the universal world of nature; or, Grand museum of intellectual, rational, and scientific truths [electronic resource]. ... By a society of gentlemen.
Published
London [England] : printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, no. 32, Clerkenwell-Close, ... Sold also by J. Walker, no. 44, Paternoster-Row; and by all booksellers, stationers, and newscarriers, in town and country, [1790-1791]
Physical Description
v., plates : ports. ; 21 cm (8⁰)
Extent
[Vol. I. for the year 1790] (April [i.e. Mar.], 1790.-December, 1790.)- Vol. II. for the year 1791. (January, 1791.-October, 1791.)
Numbering Peculiarities
First issue, the preface dated March, 1790, is dated: "April, 1790" in error; second and subsequent issues assume the first issue to have appeared in March.
First volume t.p. lacks designation.
Issues unnumbered.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale Community.
Notes
With added volume title pages issued with the first number of each volume.
Volume and issue titles repeated as caption titles in each number.
Designation from monthly title pages, except for the first issue, which has only a volume title page and has the designation below the caption title.
Imprints vary slightly; from May 1790 and on the v. 2 title page, H.D. Symonds' name is added as a bookseller.
Each issue is designed to combine articles on theology with essays on science, natural history, and general ideas; issues include poetry selections, current events (especially crime news), births, marriages, deaths, preferments, and bankrupts. Early numbers discuss the slave trade and mention the Bounty mutiny.
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
Variant and related titles
New magazine of knowledge
Grand museum of intellectual, rational, and scientific truths
Format
Journals & Newspapers / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 22, 2006
References
New Cambridge bibliography of English literature, II:1309
Ward, W.S. Index and finding list of serials published in the British Isles, 1789-1832, p. 113
English short title catalogue, ESTCP6012.
Genre/Form
Periodicals - England - 18th century.
Also listed under
New Jerusalem Church.
Great Britain England London.
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