The new magazine of knowledge concerning heaven and hell, and the universal world of nature; or, Grand museum of intellectual, rational, and scientific truths. [electronic resource] : ... By a society of gentlemen.

London [England] : printed and sold by R. Hindmarsh, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, no. 32, Clerkenwell-Close, ... Sold also by J. Walker, no. 44, Paternoster-Row; and by all booksellers, stationers, and newscarriers, in town and country, [1790-1791?]

Great Britain -- England -- London.

English

v., plates : ports. ; 21 cm (8⁰)

[Vol. I. for the year 1790] (April [i.e. Mar.], 1790.-December, 1790.)- Vol. II. for the year 1791. (January, 1791.-October, 1791.)

With added volume title pages issued with the first number of each volume.
Volume and issue titles repeated as caption titles in each number.
Designation from monthly title pages, except for the first issue, which has only a volume title page and has the designation below the caption title.
Imprints vary slightly; from May 1790 and on the v. 2 title page, H.D. Symonds' name is added as a bookseller.
Each issue is designed to combine articles on theology with essays on science, natural history, and general ideas; issues include poetry selections, current events (especially crime news), births, marriages, deaths, preferments, and bankrupts. Early numbers discuss the slave trade and mention the Bounty mutiny.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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NCBEL, II:1309
Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 113
English Short Title Catalog, P6012.

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