| Uniform title | Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly) |
| Variant title |
Universal museum, and complete magazine |
| Caption title |
Universal museum and complete magazine, for ... |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| General note | Portion of title repeated as caption in each issue. |
| General note | With title page vignette of the British Museum between lines of title. |
| General note | With headpieces. |
| General note | Issue date repeated below caption. |
| General note | Title page includes issue date, description of plates, table of contents. |
| General note | Verso of title page includes table of stock prices. |
| General note | Imprint lacks date; years of publication from dates of issues. |
| General note | Direction line reads: Museum [date]. |
| General note | Printed in two columns; text begins with factotum initial. |
| General note | Includes essays on the arts, on exotic places, natural history, medicine, domestic arts, politics and foreign affairs, theater, reviews of new books, stock prices, and monthly accounts of current events including births, marriages, deaths, preferments, bankrupts, and poetry. Numbered essays include: Witting's chronicle and The hermit in town. |
| General note | Description based on: January, 1767. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
| References |
NCBEL, 1303 |
| References |
Crane & Kaye, 907 |
| References |
Times handlist, p. 43 |
| References |
Goldsmith's lib. cat., 37775 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, P6375. |
| Special numbering | Issues unnumbered; chronological designation only. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Indexes |
Indexed in annual collected volumes. |
| Title history note | Collected annually by: The Universal museum, or Gentleman's & ladies polite magazine (1764); and by The Universal museum and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (1765-1772). |
| Succeeding title |
Universal museum, and complete magazine of knowledge and pleasure (London, England : Monthly) |
| Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |
