The universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure, for ...

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Payne, J., publisher.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Books.

History.

Intellectual life.

Theater.

Travel writing.

Great Britain.

England.

Theater--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

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

Genre:

Reviews.

Periodicals.

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

volumes, plates : illustrations, tables, portraits, music ; 21 cm (8⁰)

Monthly

Began in Nov. 1764; ceased with Dec. 1772.

Other Title:

Universal museum, and complete magazine

The universal museum and complete magazine, for ...

Continued By:

Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly)

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Printed for J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster-Row, <1764-

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Portion of title repeated as caption in each issue.

With title page vignette of the British Museum between lines of title.

With headpieces.

Issue date repeated below caption.

Title page includes issue date, description of plates, table of contents.

Verso of title page includes table of stock prices.

Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of issues.

Direction line reads: Museum [date].

Printed in two columns; text begins with factotum initial.

Includes essays on the arts, on exotic places, natural history, medicine, domestic arts, politics and foreign affairs, theater, reviews of new books, stock prices, and monthly accounts of current events including births, marriages, deaths, preferments, bankrupts, and poetry. Numbered essays include: Witting's chronicle and The hermit in town.

Description based on: January, 1767.

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 unnumbered; chronological designation only.

Collected annually by: The Universal museum, or Gentleman's & ladies polite magazine (1764); and by The Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (1765-1772).

Finding Aid/Index:

Indexed in annual collected volumes.

Cited in:

NCBEL, 1303

Crane & Kaye, 907

Times handlist, p. 43

Goldsmith's lib. cat., 37775

English Short Title Catalog, P6375.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.