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The Britannic magazine; or Entertaining repository of heroic adventures. For the year ..
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- Format
- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London [England] : printed for the author, and sold by Champante & Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, & at the British Directory Office, Ave Maria Lane, St. Pauls, [1793-1807?]
- Publication Dates
- Vol. 1. (1793)-vol. XII. ([1807])
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (12 v., plates ) ports., maps
- OCLC
- ocn642235021
- Finding Aids
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- With subject indexes in each vol. from 3-12; vol. 3 has cumulative index for vols. 1-3
- Succeeding Titles
- Title pages are engraved.
- Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of coverage and internal dates.
- Colophons after vol. 6 give printers' names, which vary. Vol. 7 colophon reads: Printed by J.W. Myers, no. 2, Paternoster-row, London.
- Title pages include vignettes which vary.
- Title and year repeated as caption at head of text in vol. 1; later volumes have added caption titles on first issues but lack dates.
- Note at end of vol. 3 advises subscribers to have the contents of vols. 1-3 bound separately in three volumes by subject: The Wars of England, The History of France, and miscellanies from the magazine.
- Volume and issue numbers added to direction lines at intervals which apparently approximate the beginning of next individual number.
- Printed in two columns; volumes have continuous pagination and signatures.
- Includes accounts of history, explorations, military adventures, and other examples of heroic achievement, with poetry selections and 'Monthly chronicle' of current events, some of which come from the London gazette.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- NCBEL, II:1310
- Times handlist, p. 47
- Crane & Kaye, 59
- Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 19
- English Short Title Catalog, P6382.
- Cumulates, with added table of contents in vol. 1, indivicual issues of The Britannic magazine.