[The Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure : containing the greatest variety of original pieces, ... embellished with a great variety of prints and maps.].

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Standardized Title:

Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy--England--Public opinion--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Social policy.

Theater--England--History--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Theater.

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

Travel writing.

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

English literature.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789--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 (7 v., plates (some fold.) ) ill., maps ;

Monthly

[Volume I. for 1764.] April 1764-

Ceased in Oct. 1764.

Other Title:

Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure

Continued By:

Universal museum: or Gentleman's and lady's polite magazine of history, politics and literature

Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure

Place of Publication:

[London [England] : publish'd monthly according to Act of Parliament, by J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster row, [1764]]

Notes:

Title from engraved general title page; monthly issue lacks individual t.p. or wrapper.

Short title given as caption on first page of text.

Imprint from collected issue title page.

Imprint lacks date; year of publication from designation of issue.

With printer's ornament on title page.

Prefatory note to the reader follows title page in copy cataloged.

Direction line of first p. of text reads: Comp. Mag. April 1764.

Includes history, current events, politics, essays on social questions, military and civil preferments, theatrical criticism and a list of current performances, poetry, occasional music, current events for each month including marriages, deaths and stock prices; also includes numbered esssays: The Traveller.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

With chronological designation only.

Collected issue title page numbered, but intended no. of issues for each volume not given.

Monthly issues collected as: The Complete museum of knowledge and pleasure.

Merged with: The Universal museum: or gentleman's and lady's polite magazine of history, politics and literature in Nov. 1764, to form: The Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1304

Crane & Kaye, 1135

English Short Title Catalog, P3014.

Contains:

Traveller.

OCLC:

508356637