[The Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure : containing the greatest variety of original pieces, ... embellished with a great variety of prints and maps.].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy--England--Public opinion--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Social policy.

Theater--England--History--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Theater.

Travel writing--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Travel writing.

English literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

English literature.

History.

Politics and government.

Public opinion.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

England.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

7 volumes, plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (8⁰)

Monthly

[Volume I. for 1764.] April 1764-

Ceased in Oct. 1764.

Other Title:

Complete magazine

The complete magazine

Continued By:

Universal museum: or Gentleman's and lady's polite magazine of history, politics and literature

Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure

Place of Publication:

[London [England] : publish'd monthly according to Act of Parliament, by J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster row, [1764]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Title from engraved general title page; monthly issue lacks individual t.p. or wrapper.

Short title given as caption on first page of text.

Imprint from collected issue title page.

Imprint lacks date; year of publication from designation of issue.

With printer's ornament on title page.

Prefatory note to the reader follows title page in copy cataloged.

Direction line of first p. of text reads: Comp. Mag. April 1764.

Includes history, current events, politics, essays on social questions, military and civil preferments, theatrical criticism and a list of current performances, poetry, occasional music, current events for each month including marriages, deaths and stock prices; also includes numbered esssays: The Traveller.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

With chronological designation only.

Collected issue title page numbered, but intended no. of issues for each volume not given.

Monthly issues collected as: The Complete museum of knowledge and pleasure.

Merged with: The Universal museum: or gentleman's and lady's polite magazine of history, politics and literature in Nov. 1764, to form: The Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1304

Crane & Kaye, 1135

English Short Title Catalog, P3014.

Contains:

Traveller.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.