The western county magazine : for the year ... By a society of gentlemen. ...
| Previous Title: | County magazine (Salisbury, England : Annual) |
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| Format: | Journal |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eighteenth century collections online.
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| Online Access: | Full text online |
| Published: | 1789 (Volume III.) [No. XXXVII. (January, 1789)- Ceased with: vol. 6, 1792. |
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| Item Description: | "Particularly dedicated to the inhabitants of Wilts, Hants, Berks, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall". Caption title and date of issue repeated as running title. Title pages include description of contents. Imprint lacks date; year of publication from designation. Monthly issues within each volume lack imprint. Issue date given below caption in each monthly number. Caption title has headpiece. With volume and number on direction line of each issue. Printed in two columns; text begins with factotum initial. An address to subscribers on page 368 of volume 6 announces the end of publication. General news and commentary on the state of Britain, Ireland and the East India Company, with naval analysis of the Dutch War, reports on the seige of Gibralter and commentary on other military activities; includes anecdotes, correspondence, poetry selections--with several contributions from William Cowper. Also includes essays entitled: The Academician and The Moralist. Reproduction of original from the British Library. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 4 volumes ; 22 cm. (8⁰) |
| Publication Frequency: | Annual (Collected issues) |
| Related Items: | Collects, with added prefatory material, monthly issues of The county magazine from Jan. 1789 through Dec. 1792. |
| Finding Aid: | Subjects, poetry titles; in Dec. issue of each volume. |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- Salisbury. |