Author: Urban,Sylvanus
Title: GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE and Historical Chronicle. For the year MDCCXCIII
Description: London,Printed John Nichols for, David Henry & Eliz.Newbery 1787 Engraved plates {13 including folding} . 8vo marbled leather spine extra gilt + 2 spine labels gilt titled and black round number label gilt [edges worn/hinges cracked but firmly held, head and foot of spine chipped to headbands] All edges blue dyed. Printed title +ii-iv =Preface,+ index indicatorius etc +[January to June woodcut titlepages included with each of the 6 month's contents] +552pp +{14pp = index] Small pink University stamp to titlepage and a single lower margin stamp to pp101. There is one gathering misnumbered but the collation and the text is correct and without a break.There is a small erasure to the front pastedown but otherwise the book is crisp, clean and has no loose or torn pages. There are articles on America, the discovery of discovery of a fine Roman pavement found near Warminster, finding the tomb of Gundred wife of William de Warrens Earl of Surrey daughter of William the Conqueror who died c 1078, Affairs of the East India Company, Tobacco and its effects on the lungs, etc. etc.

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