The New Christian's magazine : being an universal repository of divine knowledge.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 CE.

Church history.

Bishops--Biography--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Bishops.

Bishops--Biography.

Hymns, English.

Books.

Theology--Periodicals.

Theology--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Books--Reviews--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Hymns, English--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Hymns, English.

Reviews.

Newspapers.

Physical Description:

50 volumes, plates : portraits ; 22 cm (8⁰)

Weekly, 8 May-

Vol. I. [No. 1-10 (Oct. 1782-June 1783)]-vol. V. [no. 41-50 (dates uncertain)]

Other Title:

New Christian's magazine

The New Christian's magazine Oct. 1782-Mar. 1784

The New Christian's magazine; or, Repository of divine knowledge Apr.-

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for the editors; and published by Alexr. Hogg, no. 16, Paternoster Row, 1782-[1784?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Title pages for v. 1-2 are engraved.

Title and imprint from collected issue title pages, repeated on title pages of individual issues.

Title repeated as caption on first page of text of each issue.

Imprints of v. 1-2 include dates; year of publication lacking on individual issue title pages and on v. 4-5.

Issue contents and plates described on individual issue title pages.

Note following title reads in part: "Calculated to furnish the readers with a complete Christian library ... undertaken by a society of clergymen, of the Diocese of London".

Note following v. 1 imprint: To be continued monthly, price only sixpence.

On verso of title page for no. 21 (Apr. 1784): "To be published in future weekly. ... On Saturday, the 8th of May 1784, will therefore be published, number XXII".

From v. <4> note below imprint reads: The whole publishing in fifty weekly numbers.

Frontis. and interior plates are of bishops or cathedral churches; printed in two columns.

Includes biographies of contemporary bishops and early church dignitaries, a history of the early church, theological articles, book reviews, hymn and psalm texts, religious poetry. Monthly issues include preferments, new books, lists of marriages, births, and deaths, current events, and bills of mortality.

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).

Volume title pages lack chronological designation and imprint dates after vol. <2>.

Monthly issues from Oct. 1782-Mar. 1784 have chronological designation only.

From Apr. 1784, no issues are dated.

Numeration begins with no. XXI [Apr. 1784].

Publication frequency varies. Dates of last 29 numbers, calculated as published weekly, give a date range of: 8 May-20 Nov. 1784. However reference sources estimate a final publication date of "1786" (cf. NCBEL).

Volumes 1-2 have supplements.

Finding Aid/Index:

Subjects and poetry titles.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1307

Crane & Kaye, 602

English Short Title Catalog, P3066.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.