The Freemasons' magazine: or, General and complete library, [electronic resource] : for ...

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Standardized Title:

Freemasons' magazine: or, General and complete library (London, England : 1793 : monthly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Freemasonry.

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

Freemasons.

Freemasons--England--Intellectual life--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

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

England.

Genre:

Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.

Essays -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

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

Monthly

June 1793-December 1795.

Other Title:

Freemasons' magazine

Continued By:

Freemason's magazine, and cabinet of universal literature

Place of Publication:

London [England] : printed and published by J[ohn]. W[alton]. Bunney, no. 7, Newcastle-Street, Strand; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, [1793-1796]

Notes:

Continued in 1796 by: The Freemason's magazine, and cabinet of universal literature.

Title spelling varies slightly.

Title page includes table of contents.

Below imprint in square brackets: Entered at Stationers-Hall.

Imprints vary; Dec. 1793, Feb.-Oct. 1794 read in part: "Printed for the proprietor, and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave-Maria Lane"; Jan. 1794 reads in part: "Printed for the proprietor, by T. Burton and Co. (No. 28, Little Queen-Street, Holborn.) Sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker"; Nov. 1794-Dec. 1795 read: "sold by J. Parsons".

Portraits include those of prominent freemasons.

Includes biographies of important masons, essays on moral and intellectual life, a selection of poetry, and a monthly chronicle of events, including foreign and parliamentary news, births and deaths, bankrupts, and so forth. Issues in early 1795 include seven essays entitled The Freemason.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1393

Times handlist, p. 47

Ward, W. S. Index of British Serials, p. 60

English Short Title Catalog, P1891.

Contains:

Freemason

OCLC:

508339119