The universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure, for ... [electronic resource].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Payne, J., publisher.

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.

Travel writing.

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

Books.

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

Theater.

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

Great Britain.

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

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates ) ill., tables, ports., music ;

Monthly

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

Other Title:

Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure

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, 1767.

Notes:

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).

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.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Issues unnumbered; chronological designation only.

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.

OCLC:

508378082