Volume 1

The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYLVAN C/S URBAN RED1VIVUS. THE GENTLEMAN'S MA GA ZINE LIBRARY,: BEING A CLASSIFIED COLLECTION OF THE CHIEF * CONTENTS OF THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, FROM 1731 TO 1868. Edited by G. LAURENCE GOMME, F.S.A. In the Gentleman’s Magazine Library is collected and arranged all the principal articles contained in the Gentleman’s Magazine from its commencement in 1731 to x868-, the date and volume whence they are taken being given at the head of each extract. Each volume is devoted to one subject, and presents all the contributions to the Magazine on that topic, classified ready for reference. Notes and elucidations are also given at the foot of the pages and in the Appendix ; and an exhaustive Index puts the' contents of each volume at the service of the reader, in detail. VOLUMES ALREADY PUBLISHED : Manners and Customs. Dialect and Popular Sayings. Popular Superstitions and Tra- ditions. English Traditions. Geological and Pre-Historic Remains. Anglo-Saxon Remains. Romano-British Remains. VOLUMES IN PREPARATION : Numismatics. Historical Antiquities. Original Letters. Topography. Literary Curiosities. Biography and Family History. Natural History. Anecdote and Humour. The Gentleman’s Magazine Library is being issued in handsome demy 8vo. volumes of from 300 to 350 pages each, tastefully printed in old-faced type, on antique paper, with ancient adornments, and hand- somely bound in cloth, 7s. 6d., in Roxburgh 10s. 6d., large paper 21s. “We are ourselves familiar with a great part of the series (Gentlemen's Magazine), and have not detected any omission of the least importance.”—Athenaeum. “ Singularly interesting .... produced with considerable care and skill.—City Press. “To the general reader a reprint like this is always interesting; to the antiquary and the student of folk-lore it presents a wealth of raw material hitherto unattainable, except by laborious research.”—St. James's Gazette.