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English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Alternate Titles:

Running title: New Christian's magazine, Oct. 1782-Mar. 1784
Running title: New Christian's magazine; or, Repository of divine knowledge, Apr.-

Publication Frequency:

Weekly, 8 May-

Former Publication Frequency:

Monthly, Oct. 1782-Apr. 1784

Subjects:

Church history — Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 CE

Bishops — Biography — Periodicals — Early works to 1800

Theology — Periodicals — Early works to 1800

Books — Reviews — Periodicals — Early works to 1800

Hymns, English — Periodicals — Early works to 1800

30-600

Bishops

Theology — Periodicals

Theology

Books

Hymns, English

Church history

Genres:

Periodicals — England — 18th century

Early works

Reviews

Biographies

Periodicals

General Notes:

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.
NCBEL, II:1307
Crane & Kaye, 602
Volume title pages lack chronological designation and imprint dates after vol. <2>.
Monthly issues from Oct. 1782-Mar. 1784 have chronological designation only.
From Apr. 1784, no issues are dated.
Numeration begins with no. XXI [Apr. 1784].
Publication frequency varies. Dates of last 29 numbers, calculated as published weekly, give a date range of: 8 May-20 Nov. 1784. However reference sources estimate a final publication date of "1786" (cf. NCBEL).
Volumes 1-2 have supplements.
Subjects and poetry titles.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
English Short Title Catalog, P3066.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Physical Description:

50 volumes, plates : portraits ; 22 cm (8⁰)
Vol. I. [No. 1-10 (Oct. 1782-June 1783)]-vol. V. [no. 41-50 (dates uncertain)]

Digital Characteristics:

text file

OCLC Numbers:

508356683

Other Control Numbers:

006073827 (source: Uk-ES)