1793 1st GENTLEMAN'S MAG Thick 100p Iillus 3 DATED PLATES Military AMERICA Fine
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*1793* GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE . 1st/1st.Illustrated, including 3 splendid plates, illustrated masthead... and woodcut header and historiated initial, weather and stock tables, etc.AUTHENTIC. October, 1793. Thick: approx. 100pp w/plates ( FINE ). LONDON. W/social, historical meteorological and financial info; science and exploration; political essays; commonwealth news; etc.Great Period Content . Includes much chronicling Britain's military success, short piece on news from America, etc.In English (albeit, an older style, w/"F" for s, etc.) .Just EXCELLENT Cond.!As always, low opening bid and... NO RESERVE.THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE."More In Quantity and greater Variety than any Book of the Mind and Price."By Sylvanus Urban, Gent.London, October, 1793.Printed for D. Henry.Printed by John Nichols, at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Paffage, Fleet Street : [And fold by Eliz. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate Street.]An Aside.... The "S" that Looks Like an "F"...In the old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, from which the English alphabet is derived, the small "s: was written in two forms: one is the "long s" that resembles our modern letter "f" (but note, it does not have the center bar), which is used when the "s" is the first letter of the word, or the first of a pair of "s's"; the other is the familiar shaped "s" which appears at the
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