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The pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository : of useful and polite literature.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available from 1794 until 1795. Available online
View online- Format:
- Journal/Periodical
- Standardized Title:
- Pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository (London, England : Semiannual)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--Great Britain--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Biography.
- Crime and criminals--England--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Crime and criminals.
- Inventions--Great Britain--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Inventions.
- Great Britain. Army--Drill and tactics--Periodicals--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain. Army.
- Genre:
- Periodicals -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v., plates ) ill., ports. ;
- Semiannual
- Vol. I.-vol. V. [no. I. August 1794.-no. XXIX. December 1796]
- Other Title:
- Pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Harrison & Co. 18, Pater-noster Row, 1794-1795.
- Notes:
- Title pages and frontis. plates engraved, with volume number on frontis.
- Title page includes note on subjects, with motto: "Multum in parvo" a bove printer's ornament, and "Utile et dulce" below.
- Imprints include years of publication.
- Monthly issues lack title pages.
- Issue numbering consecutive from volume to volume.
- Includes biographies, articles on well-known places, interesting inventions, with foreign and London news for the month, criminal trials of interest, births, marriages, deaths, preferments, bankrupts, theater news, and a poetry section. Volumes include bills of mortality and directions for plates.
- Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
- Volumes lack chronological designation.
- First volume begins in August instead of July.
- Collects monthly issues of: The Pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository of useful and polite literature.
- Finding Aid/Index:
- Classified index in each volume: subjects, poetry titles, government news, theaters.
- Cited in:
- NCBEL, II:1310
- Times handlist, p. 47
- Crane & Kaye, 724
- Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 128
- English Short Title Catalog, P6473.
- OCLC:
- 508378101
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