Author: Urban, Sylvanus
Title: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. For the Year 1734
Description: London, Printed and Sold at St. John's Gate; by F. Jefferies in Ludgate-Street, 1734. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. iv, 746; [16] pp. numbers repeat 441-444. Illus. with 1 b/w drawing. 8vo. Includes an early drawing of the solar system (p. 565). Pagination: iv, 3-56, [2], 59-112, [2], 115-168, [2], 171-224, [2], 227-280, [2], 283-336, [2], 339-395, [1], [2], 399-456, [2], 463-516, [2], 519-576, [2], p 576 misnum "577-8"; 577-632, [2], 635-708, supplement 713-746; [16] pp. numbers repeat 441-444. "Cave began the Gentleman's Magazine in January 1731, thus giving birth to one of the major publishing forms of the modern era, the magazine. It began modestly as a digest of London newspapers and periodicals for country customers (an orientation signaled in Cave's editorial pseudonym, Sylvanus Urban), but it went on to prosper and survive until 1922." (ODNB). A fair ex-lib copy, boards detached, chipped, and scuffed, spine dry; split at middle, two rubber stamps on two preliminary leaves, owner's name on top edge of title, first two issues without title page. Contents about very good.

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