Description
Published:[Volume I. for 1764.] April 1764-
Ceased in Oct. 1764.
Item Description:Title from engraved general title page; monthly issue lacks individual title page 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 pages 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).
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 volumes, plates (some folded)) : illustrations, maps ;
Publication Frequency:Monthly
Related Items: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.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London.