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The Court miscellany, or, Ladies new magazine. Containing a ... variety of original pieces in prose and verse ... By Matilda Wentworth, of Piccadilly, and others
Court miscellany, or Ladies new magazine (London, England : Collected issues).
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- 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 for Richardson and Urquhart at the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXV. [1765]
- Publication Dates
- Vol I. [July, 1765.-December, 1765.]
- Physical Details
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- 1 v., plates : ports., tables, engr. music ; 21 cm. (8⁰)
- Finding Aids
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- Subjects; poetry
- Succeeding Titles
- Editor: Hugh Kelly.
- 'Matilda Wentworth' is a pseudonym used by Kelly for his contributions to this periodical.
- Title pages are engraved.
- With title page vignettes.
- Main title repeated as caption on first page of text of monthly issues.
- Monthly issues in copy cataloged lack title pages or wrappers.
- Printed in two columns, with headpieces above captions.
- Includes selections from published fiction, history, travel, biography, belles lettres, anecdotes and literary commentary; issues include 'Theatrical intelligence', and a monthly chronicle with births, marriages, deaths, preferments and poetry selections.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Sullivan, A. British literary magazines, p. 57-62
- NCBEL, II:1304
- Crane & Kaye, 147
- Times handlist, p. 43
- English Short Title Catalog, P3076.
- Collects, with added indexes and a table of stock prices, monthly issues of: The Court miscellany, or Ladies new magazine.
Subjects
- Biography -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- History -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Travel writing -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Romances, English -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Fiction, English -- 18th century -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Poetry, English -- 18th century -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.