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*1793* GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE . 1st/1st. Illustrated, including 3 splendid plates (one of which is oversized, and folding), illustrated masthead... and woodcut header and historiated initials, etc.AUTHENTIC. December, 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 1st Printing of William Cowper's poem called 'The Negro's Complaint' (written in 1788 and this is its first printing) which rapidly became very famous, and was often quoted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 20th-century civil rights movement . Also: American news, including from NY and Philadelphia.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, December, 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 end of words. This usage is cognate to the two forms of "s" in the Greek alphabet. English printer John Bell first phased out the use of the long "s" in his books at the end of the 1700's, and by 1810 or so the new practice was universal in printed material. Interestingly, though, the use o f the old long "s" continued in handwritten documents for many years, through the 1870's.About the publication...FOUNDED BY EDWARD CAVE IN 1731 UNDER HIS FAMOUS PSEUDONYM "SYLVANUS URBAN," THIS'S WIDELY CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT, AUTHORITATIVE PERIODICAL OF ITS AGE . THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE IS RENOWNED AS A PRIMARY SOURCE INTELLIGENCE SOURCE CONCERNING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IT INFLUENCED COLONIAL-AMERICA PUBLISHER (E.G., BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S 18TH-CENTURY GENERAL MAGAZINE WAS CHIEFLY PATTERNED AFTER GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE). THIS "NEWS-MONTHLY" PUBLISHED ARTICLES CONCERNING HISTORY, SCIENCE, POLITICS, CURRENT EVENTS ETC, AS NOTED IN THIS ISSUE. AS IT EVOLVED, THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE REFLECTED ENGLAND'S CONCERN OVER THE COLONIES (AMERICA)... AND DEVELOPING REVOLUTIONARY FORCES; INDEED, MANY OF THE PRIMARY REPORTS ON OCCURRENCES IN THE COLONIES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (AND A RICH SOURCE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP) ARE CONTAINED W/IN THE MAGAZINE.Regular features include:METEOROLOGICAL [WEATHER] DIARY/TABLE for several monthsStock (full-page and other) tables (commodities and financials);Foreign Intelligence, including from (e.g., Scotland, Poland, East and West Indies, Ireland, Algeria; etc.);Historical chronical.;Military News;Much more... including executions, births, deaths, adverts, book reviews, poetry, political essays, book reviews, promotions; etc.Much, much more.DETAILS/CONDITION...1793, December. *1st/1st* NOT REPRINT; NOT FACSIMILE; ETC... AUTHENTIC PERIOD PUBLICATION. Printed for D. Henry. Printed by John Nichols. True 1st, stab holes present. Just excellent condition. Approx. 8" x 5" 100pp w/plates. Great content . Illustrated as noted and pictured (3 dated plates; as called for). Leather spine. THICK: 98pp. Illustrated masthead w/table of contents. Thick, laid paper. T ext is VERY FINE. Periodical is: Bright, suare, straight, fresh, clean (no writing or marks), tight, etc.LOW OPENING BID; and at auction... WITHOUT RESERVE! PLEASE READ !! IMPORTANT AUCTION INFORMATION: Our entire CUS... read more

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