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This particular index is to ‘the Essays, Dissertations, and Historical Passages’ in the first volume and to the ‘Poetical Articles, the Names of Persons, the Plates, and to the Books and Pamphlets’ from the years 1731 when the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ began to 1786. The highly influential magazine was published by Edward Cave who gave the then struggling SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84) his first major break. Provenance: with the bookplate of Captain Thomas Herbert of the Royal Navy.
AYSCOUGH, Samuel
A General Index to the First Fifty-Six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, From its Commencement in the Year 1731, to the End of 1786
E. Newbery, London, 1789
Octavo, two volumes bound as one (215 x 135 mm.), full contemporary calf, blind panelled, spine with ornate gilt decoration and gilt title labels, light wear, iv, 368; [2], 494, [2] pp. including all blank endpapers, in good condition.
Stock number: 7981
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