Uniform title | Westminster magazine (London, England : 1776) |
Frequency | Monthly |
General note | Contributors included John Hope and Thomas Holcroft. |
General note | Title pages include description of engraved plates and illustrations and table of contents. |
General note | Title and date repeated as caption on first page of text, with ornamental headpiece above title. |
General note | Imprints lack dates; years of publication from dates of issues. |
General note | Imprints vary; from 1778, imprint reads: Printed for Fielding and Walker, no. 20, Paternoster-Row; from 1781: Printed for John Walker, no. 20, Paternoster-Row. |
General note | Printed in two columns, with continuous pagination within each calendar year. |
General note | Monthly numbers include many essays printed in series from issue to issue, and a section entitled: Monthly Chronicle, which summarizes the news and lists marriages, deaths and preferments. Essays include: "The Leveller", by John Hope, "The Actor," by Thomas Holcroft, "The Speculatist," "The Lucubrator," "Momus: or, the Laughing philosopher," and "Dialogues of the living." Topics include art and literature, the theater, morals and taste, anecdotes of famous people. Issues also include original poetry. The magazine reported the trial of the Duchess of Kingston, and published reports from travelers. |
General note | Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. |
References |
NCBEL, II:1305 |
References |
Times handlist, p. 44 |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, P2416. |
Special numbering | Monthly issues have chronological designation only. |
Other forms | Annually cumulated volumes are available on microfilm in the English Literary Periodicals series (UMI, reels 926-928). |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
Indexes |
Cumulated volumes are indexed. |
Title history note | Cumulated annually, with added prefatory material and occasional supplements, by: The Westminster Magazine, or the Pantheon of taste. |
Preceding title |
Westminster magazine. or The Pantheon of taste (London, England : 1772 : Monthly) |
Genre/form | Periodicals. |
Other title | Momus: or, the laughing philosopher. 1-[112]. |
Other title | Speculatist. 1-17. |
Other title | Lucubrator. 1-9. |
Other title | Dialogues of the living. 1-27. |