Miscellaneæ curiosæ: or, Entertainments for the ingenious of both sexes : For the months of ...

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Gent, Thomas, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puzzles--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Puzzles.

Mathematical amusements--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.

Mathematical amusements.

Genre:

Periodicals -- 18th century -- England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v., plates (some fold.) ) ill., tables, diagr. ;

Quarterly (except the months of Oct.-Dec.)

January, February and March, 1734.-July, August and September [1735].

Other Title:

Miscellaneµ curiosµ

Place of Publication:

York [England] : printed by Tho. Gent, in Coffee-Yard, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]-1735.

Notes:

Publisher: Thomas Gent.

Portion of title repeated as caption.

Title spelling varies slightly.

Imprints include year of publication.

Imprints vary; added in 2nd issue: Sold by J. Walford, behind the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; name added in no.[3-6]: Thomas Hammond, in the Pavement, York.

"Price six pence" follows imprint on later issues.

Some issues include booksellers advertisements.

Includes puzzles, enigmas, mathematical theorems and equations to solve, with complete solutions.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

No issues numbered.

Gap in publication: Oct.-Dec. 1734.

No more published; note in final issue indicates discouragement.

Cited in:

NCBEL, II:1352

Cranfield, G.A. Provincial newspapers, p. 27

English Short Title Catalog, P6120.

OCLC:

508356888