| Variant title |
American magazine |
| Portion of title |
Monthly chronicle for the British colonies |
| Other title |
American magazine, or monthly chronicle |
| Caption title |
American magazine for ... |
| Frequency | Annual |
| General note | Editor: William Smith. |
| General note | Imprint lacks date; year of publication from dates of issues. |
| General note | Monthly issues include individual title pages, with vignette, and brief caption title at head of first page of text with issue date. |
| General note | Monthly issues have contents on title page verso. |
| General note | Vignette shows a Native American in the forest, offered a book, tomahawk, and trade goods, by well-dressed colonists. Below cut: "Praevalebit aequior." |
| General note | Individual issue title pages include note: To be continued. |
| General note | Price in brackets on issue title pages: One shilling Pennsylvania currency each month. |
| General note | Includes general essays on philosophy, natural history, mathematics, sermons, correspondence, history of the Indian wars in North America, poetry and foreign affairs news. With numbered essays: The Pratler; The Planter; The Anti-Gallican; The Hermit. |
| General note | With continuous pagination and register. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from the British Library. |
| References |
Evans, 8071 |
| References |
Sabin, 1133 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6498. |
| Special numbering | Issues unnumbered. |
| Special numbering | No more published. |
| Supplement note | With 'Monthly chronicle' (pp. 649-652) and postscript at end of volume dated: Nov. 14th 1758. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements |
| Indexes |
Subject index at end. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals Pennsylvania 18th century. |
