The novelist's magazine; or, Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Novelist's magazine; or, Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany (London, England : Weekly)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

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

Picaresque literature.

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

European literature.

Romance-language literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Romance-language literature.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Picaresque literature.

Physical Description:

volumes, plates ; 23 cm (8⁰)

Weekly

Began with no. 1 in 1780; ceased in 1788.

Other Title:

Novelist's magazine

Gentleman and lady's entertaining miscellany

Volume title page, bound within some weekly issues: The novelist's magazine

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18, Paternoster- Row, and sold by all other booksellers, stationers and newscarriers, in town and country, <1780-1788>

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Volume title page, for issues to be bound together when a volume of serialized fiction is completed, follows the wrapper title in the last weekly issue of the novels for that volume.

Volume title pages are engraved, with volume numbers, a list of works included in that volume, with a vignette above the imprint.

An internal title page for the individual work is bound in the first weekly issue of the novel being serialized, and title page imprint includes year of publication for that novel.

Imprints lack date; years of publication from reference sources.

Imprints vary slightly.

Weekly issue price: six-pence.

At head of wrapper title: To be continued weekly.

With frontis. plates in each issue for that novel.

Some wrappers carry instructions to the binder for placement of plates.

Includes serialized novels, histories, romances, or memoirs, including translations of foreign publications. Works are normally completed in three or four issues; volumes apparently appear three or four times a year.

Description based on: [Vol. XII.] Number CLXXXIV. [1783]; title from wrapper.

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).

Issues lack chronological designation; dated from internal title pages.

Completed novels collected irregularly as: The Novelist's magazine.

Companion publication of shorter fiction published monthly as: The New novelist's magazine.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1306

Crane & Kaye, 633

Times handlist, p. 45

English Short Title Catalog, P6358.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.