Author: Urban, Sylvanus
Title: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. Volume V. For the Year Mdccxxxv
Description: London, Printed by Edward Cave at St. John's Gate, 1735. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. Frontis, iv, 778, [18] pp. Illus. with 1 b/w plate and 1 wood-cut. 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement. Articles on the Cherokee Indian chief Tomo Chachi, his wife Senauki, Tooanakowki, their son, and others who were brought back to England by James Oglethorpe, and remained a month. The chief's speech is given. Two illustrations:1: (frontispiece plate) Merlin's Cave. 2. Wood-cut of the Holy Family, from a painting over the altar in the church of St. James Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Pagination: Frontis, iv, [2], 3-56, [2], 59-112, [2], 115-168, [2], 173-216, [1], 217-223, [2], {p. 228 misnum 242} 227-280 {p. 278 misnum 178}, [2], 283-336, [2], 339-392,[2], 395-448, [2], 451-504, [2], {p. 508 misnum 445} 507-564, [2], 567-624 {603-608 repeated}, [2], 627-684, [2], 687-739 {p 688 misnum 682}, [1], supplement 741-778, [18] pp. "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, contents about very good, front board detached, rear, nearly so, chipped, and scuffed, spine dry with partial split, two rubber stamps on two preliminary leaves.
Keywords: Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Indians of the Americas, , Americana, Colonial & Early America, Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Indians of the Americas, English periodicals Cherokee Indians, Book
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Title: The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer. Volume V. For the Year Mdccxxxv
Description: London, Printed by Edward Cave at St. John's Gate, 1735. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. Frontis, iv, 778, [18] pp. Illus. with 1 b/w plate and 1 wood-cut. 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement. Articles on the Cherokee Indian chief Tomo Chachi, his wife Senauki, Tooanakowki, their son, and others who were brought back to England by James Oglethorpe, and remained a month. The chief's speech is given. Two illustrations:1: (frontispiece plate) Merlin's Cave. 2. Wood-cut of the Holy Family, from a painting over the altar in the church of St. James Clerkenwell, Middlesex. Pagination: Frontis, iv, [2], 3-56, [2], 59-112, [2], 115-168, [2], 173-216, [1], 217-223, [2], {p. 228 misnum 242} 227-280 {p. 278 misnum 178}, [2], 283-336, [2], 339-392,[2], 395-448, [2], 451-504, [2], {p. 508 misnum 445} 507-564, [2], 567-624 {603-608 repeated}, [2], 627-684, [2], 687-739 {p 688 misnum 682}, [1], supplement 741-778, [18] pp. "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, contents about very good, front board detached, rear, nearly so, chipped, and scuffed, spine dry with partial split, two rubber stamps on two preliminary leaves.
Keywords: Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Indians of the Americas, , Americana, Colonial & Early America, Britain, Newspapers & Periodicals, Indians of the Americas, English periodicals Cherokee Indians, Book
Price: US$ 250.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 40154
- Book number: 40154
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