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[The Complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure : containing the greatest variety of original pieces, ... embellished with a great variety of prints and maps.].

Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication Info[London [England] : publish'd monthly according to Act of Parliament, by J. Payne, at the Feathers in Pater-noster row, [1764]]
Description7 volumes, plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm (8⁰)
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Social policy--England --Public opinion --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
Theater--England --History --18th century --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
Travel writing--Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
English literature--18th century --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
Great Britain--Politics and government --1760-1789 --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
Great Britain--History --George III, 1760-1820 --Periodicals --Early works to 1800.
Uniform titleComplete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly)
Variant title Complete magazine
Caption title Complete magazine
FrequencyMonthly
General noteTitle from engraved general title page; monthly issue lacks individual t.p. or wrapper.
General noteShort title given as caption on first page of text.
General noteImprint from collected issue title page.
General noteImprint lacks date; year of publication from designation of issue.
General noteWith printer's ornament on title page.
General notePrefatory note to the reader follows title page in copy cataloged.
General noteDirection line of first p. of text reads: Comp. Mag. April 1764.
General noteIncludes 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.
General noteReproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
References NCBEL, II:1304
References Crane & Kaye, 1135
References English Short Title Catalog, P3014.
Special numberingWith chronological designation only.
Special numberingCollected issue title page numbered, but intended no. of issues for each volume not given.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history noteMonthly issues collected as: The Complete museum of knowledge and pleasure.
Title history noteMerged 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.
Genre/formPeriodicals England 18th century.
Other titleTraveller.

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