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The court and city magazine; or, a Fund of entertainment : for the man of quality, the citizen, the scholar, the country gentleman, and the man of gallantry; as well as for the fair of every denomination.
- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Standardized Title:
- Court and city magazine (London, England : Collected issues : 1770).
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Advice columns--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Advice columns.
- English fiction--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English fiction.
- History.
- English literature.
- Romances.
- Great Britain.
- Romances--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English poetry--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- English poetry.
- Politics--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Politics.
- Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, plates (some folded) ; 21 cm (8⁰)
- Annual (Collected issues)
- Vol. I. [January-December 1770]-vol. II. [January-December 1771].
- Other Title:
- Court and city magazine
- Portion of title: Fund of entertainment
- The Court and city magazine; for
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : printed for Joseph Smith, at No. 15, Pater-noster Row, where letters to the proprietor will be received;ad sold by the booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, York, Bath, Bristol, and all other booksellers and news-carriers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXX.-MDCCLXXI. [1770-1771]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Main title repeated as caption in each monthly issue.
- Individual monthly issues lack title pages or wrappers.
- Printed in two columns.
- Apparently unrelated to the Court and city magazine of the mid-1760s.
- Includes romantic stories, excerpts from novels, imaginary correspondence on romance and advice to the lovelorn; early issues include some political essays; issues also contain: foreign news, current events, lists of deaths, births, marriages, preferments, and bankrupts. Als included are essays entitled: Letters from the dead.
- 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).
- Collected issues lack chronological designation.
- Monthly issues unnumbered, with chronological designation only.
- No more published? Cf. NCBEL.
- Collects individual monthly issues of: The Court and city magazine.
- Finding Aid/Index:
- Poetry and essay subjects.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1304
- English Short Title Catalog, P3018.
- Contains:
- Letters from the dead.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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