The New Christian's magazine [electronic resource] : being an universal repository of divine knowledge.
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Title
The New Christian's magazine [electronic resource] : being an universal repository of divine knowledge.
Running Title
The New Christian's magazine Oct. 1782-Mar. 1784
The New Christian's magazine; or, Repository of divine knowledge Apr.-
The New Christian's magazine; or, Repository of divine knowledge Apr.-
Publication Details
London [England] : printed for the editors; and published by Alexr. Hogg, no. 16, Paternoster Row, [1782-1784?]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
50 v., plates : ports. ; 22 cm. (8⁰)
Frequency
Weekly, 8 May-
Former Frequency
Monthly, Oct. 1782-Apr. 1784
Publication Coverage
Vol. I. [No. 1-10 (Oct. 1782-June 1783)]-vol. V. [no. 41-50 (dates uncertain)]
Note
Title pages for v. 1-2 are engraved.
Title and imprint from collected issue title pages, repeated on title pages of individual issues.
Title repeated as caption on first page of text of each issue.
Imprints of v. 1-2 include dates; year of publication lacking on individual issue title pages and on v. 4-5.
Issue contents and plates described on individual issue title pages.
Note following title reads in part: "Calculated to furnish the readers with a complete Christian library ... undertaken by a society of clergymen, of the Diocese of London".
Note following v. 1 imprint: To be continued monthly, price only sixpence.
On verso of title page for no. 21 (Apr. 1784): "To be published in future weekly. ... On Saturday, the 8th of May 1784, will therefore be published, number XXII".
From v. <4> note below imprint reads: The whole publishing in fifty weekly numbers.
Frontis. and interior plates are of bishops or cathedral churches; printed in two columns.
Includes biographies of contemporary bishops and early church dignitaries, a history of the early church, theological articles, book reviews, hymn and psalm texts, religious poetry. Monthly issues include preferments, new books, lists of marriages, births, and deaths, current events, and bills of mortality.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Title and imprint from collected issue title pages, repeated on title pages of individual issues.
Title repeated as caption on first page of text of each issue.
Imprints of v. 1-2 include dates; year of publication lacking on individual issue title pages and on v. 4-5.
Issue contents and plates described on individual issue title pages.
Note following title reads in part: "Calculated to furnish the readers with a complete Christian library ... undertaken by a society of clergymen, of the Diocese of London".
Note following v. 1 imprint: To be continued monthly, price only sixpence.
On verso of title page for no. 21 (Apr. 1784): "To be published in future weekly. ... On Saturday, the 8th of May 1784, will therefore be published, number XXII".
From v. <4> note below imprint reads: The whole publishing in fifty weekly numbers.
Frontis. and interior plates are of bishops or cathedral churches; printed in two columns.
Includes biographies of contemporary bishops and early church dignitaries, a history of the early church, theological articles, book reviews, hymn and psalm texts, religious poetry. Monthly issues include preferments, new books, lists of marriages, births, and deaths, current events, and bills of mortality.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
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Access limited to authorized users.
Indexed In
NCBEL, II:1307
Crane & Kaye, 602
English Short Title Catalog, P3066.
Crane & Kaye, 602
English Short Title Catalog, P3066.
Supplement Note
Volumes 1-2 have supplements.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Subjects and poetry titles.
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