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The New-Jerusalem magazine, or A treasury of celestial, spiritual, and natural, knowledge : by several members of the London Universal Society for promotion of the New Church.

Other author/creator[Universal Society for Promotion of the New Church], publisher.
Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication InfoLondon [England] : printed for the Society, no 45, Upper Marybone-Street, near Titchfield-Street, M.DCC.XC. [1790]
Description6 volumes, plates : portraits ; 22 cm (8⁰)
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Variant title New-Jerusalem magazine
Variant title New Jerusalem magazine
Portion of title Treasury of celestial, spiritual, and natural, knowledge
Caption title New-Jerusalem magazine
Variant title Engraved title page, bound in front of first issue title page, reads: New Jerusalem magazine for the year ...
FrequencyMonthly
General noteMain title repeated as caption at head of first page of each issue, with issue date.
General noteImprint includes year of publication.
General noteImprints vary; with no. 2, "sold also by H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, W. Chalklen, Gracechurch-street, J. Dennis, Middle-Row, Holborn, and all other booksellers, stationers, and newsmen in town and country, to whom the usual allowance will be made," is added to the original imprint.
General noteBelow title in brackets: To be continued monthly.
General noteBelow imprint: Entered at Stationers-Hall.
General noteNote on title page that a selection from the work, "Delights of wisdom concerning conjugal love" will be included with each issue. Copy cataloged lacks these additions.
General noteFrontis. plate added, with portrait of Emmanuel Swedenborg.
General noteWith continuous pagination.
General noteNo. 6 has note at end: End of first volume.
General noteIncludes theological and philosophical essays on Swedenborg's philosophy, serially published biography of Swedenborg, correspondence, reports on the growth of the New Church and on missionary activity.
General noteReproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
References NCBEL, II:1309
References Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 113
References English Short Title Catalog, P6355.
Special numberingFirst issue lacks numerical designation; has year designation only.
Special numberingNo. 6 ends with note, reading in part: "The editors ... are compelled, to close their publication, ... with a distant hope, ... of renewing their labours."
Supplement noteAn appendix to the magazine was published in 1791.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Succeeding title New Jerusalem journal; or, Treasury of divine knowledge
Genre/formPeriodicals England 18th century.

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