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The St. James's magazine: or Memoirs of our own times
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- Included Titles
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- Eighteenth century collections online
- Man of fancy. No. 1-6
- Picture. No. 1-8
- English Marmontel. No. 1-3
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- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
- Language
- English
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- [London [England] : printed for the proprietors, by G. Bigg and E. Cox, and sold by John Wheble, in Ave Maria Lane,Holborn], MDCCLXXIV. [1774]-
- Publication Dates
- [No. I.] February, 1774.-, Ceased in July 1776
- Physical Details
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- v., plates ; 23 cm (8⁰)
- Title from wrapper of no. II (March, 1774); monthly issues also published with title pages and caption titles.
- Title for collected volumes of each year (Identical to the wrapper title) appear in the first issue of that year, in lieu of the issue title page.
- Caption titles include issue date; caption and title repeated as ruuning title.
- Imprint from title page for vol. I; imprints for monthly title pages vary.
- From May-Dec. 1774 issue imprint reads: London: Printed by G. Bigg and E. Cox; and sold by J. Bew, no. 28, Pater-noster-row, and by all the booksellers in town and country.
- Wrapper title and monthly title page imprints lack dates; wrappers include addresses of printer and bookseller; years of publication from volume title page.
- Monthly title pages include table of contents and list of plates.
- Wrappers include issue number and date, description of plates, acknowledgement of correspondents, and table of contents; back wrapper includes advertisements.
- Frontis. plate for vol. I. includes publisher statements: Published as the act directs, by I. Wheble, March 1. 1774.
- Crown with "III" below and "G R" on either side appears on wrappers, above caption, and on volume title page; wrapper also includes figures of royal guards on either side of title.
- Includes essays and anecdotes on such topics as the theater, morals, aesthetics, travel, biography, literature; with correspondence, poetry, and current events including births, marriages, deaths, promotions, and a list of current members of Parliament. Some issues include numbered essays: The man of fancy; The picture; The English Marmontel.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- NCBEL, II:1305
- NCBEL, II:1285
- Crane & Kaye, 804
- English Short Title Catalog, P6359.
Subjects
- Morals -- England -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Theater -- England -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Travel writing -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Biography -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- England -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- George I, 1760-1820 -- Periodicals -- Early works to 1800.