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The Christian's magazine, or A treasury of divine knowledge
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- Online
Details
- Included Title
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- Eighteenth century collections online
- Format
- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London [England] : printed pursuant to his Majesty's royal licence, for J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church Yard, and J. Coote in Pater-Noster Row, [1760]-M DCC LXVII. [1767]
- Publication Dates
- Vol. I. [May-Dec. 1760]-vol. VIII. [Jan.-Aug. 1767]
- Physical Details
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- 8 v., plates (some fold.) : ill., ports, tables, engr. music ; 21 cm. (8⁰)
- Finding Aids
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- Subjects, poetry, scripture texts
- 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.
- NCBEL, II:1303
- Crane & Kaye, 108
- Roscoe, A82
- English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP3101.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Collects monthly issues of The Christian's magazine.
Subjects
- 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.