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The gospel magazine; or Treasury of divine knowledge : designed to promote experimental religion.

Other author/creatorToplady, Augustus, 1740-1778 editor.
Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication InfoLondon [England] : printed for Vallance and Simmons, no. 120, Cheapside, M.DCC.LXXIV [1774-1783]
Description10 volumes, plates : illustrations, portraits, engr. music ; 20 cm (8⁰)
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Variant title Gospel magazine
Caption title Gospel magazine, for
Variant title Running title, verso: Gospel magazine
FrequencyAnnual (collected issues)
General noteEditor (to June 1776): Augustus Toplady.
General noteWith added engr. title page.
General noteTitle repeated on monthly issue title pages, which also include table of contents.
General noteFrontis. plate signed: George Burder sculptor.
General notePreface signed: The editors.
General noteImprints vary: imprint for 1781 reads in part: printed for T.Vallance and Alex. Hogg.
General noteVolumes have continuous pagination and register.
General noteAt end of v. 10, which ends before the end of 1783, "in order to render the preceding volume complete for binding," appears at head of index leaf.
General noteIncludes essays on religious topics, church history, and morals; with correspondence, poetry, a monthly chronicle of current events including church preferments, marriages, births and deaths. Each monthly number includes frontis. portrait of an important churchman and an engraved hymn with text and music.
General noteReproduction of original from the Huntington Library.
References NCBEL, II:1305
References Times handlist, p. 44
References Crane & Kaye, 2878
References English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP3402.
Special numberingCeased publishing Sept. 1783.
Special numberingVolume title pages lack chronological designations.
Special numberingMonthly issues unnumbered.
Supplement noteAppendices in each annual volume.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Indexes Subject index in each volume.
Title history noteCollects monthly issues of: The gospel magazine.
Title history noteNew series with new title begins: Oct. 1783.
Preceding title Gospel-magazine,or spiritual library
Genre/formPeriodicals England 18th century.

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