1808 GENTLEMAN\'S MAG Smallpox AMERICA Thomas Jefferson Pres Run PLATES 96pp FINE

1808 GENTLEMAN\'S MAG Smallpox AMERICA Thomas Jefferson Pres Run PLATES 96pp FINE

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1808 GENTLEMAN\'S MAG Smallpox AMERICA Thomas Jefferson Pres Run PLATES 96pp FINE:
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*1808* London. 210-Year-Old 1st/1st:

TheGENTLEMAN\'S MAGAZINE.

*1st/1st.*Scarce. VeryFINECondition.

Illustrated w/vignette masthead; historiated initials; woodcut header; in-text illustration, tables, etc.

PLUS 2 handsome, dated plates


February, 1808. Thick: 96p (VERY FINE). London.


Typical social and/or medical, political, historical,foreign affairs), business, military,meteorological and financial info, literary, science and exploration, political essays; commonwealth news, content,adverts, etc.


Specific content as to scanned Table of Contents.

News from America, including reportage that THOMAS JEFFERSON would run again for president were American to be threatened with war.


Great Period Content. See masthead scan for particulars.

EXCELLENT Cond.!

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THE GENTLEMAN\'S MAGAZINE

[and HISTORICAL CHRONICAL].

\"More In Quantity and greater Variety than any Book of the Mind and Price.\"

By Sylvanus Urban, Gent.

London, March 1808.

Printed byJohn Nichols and Son, at Cicero\'s Head.


About the publication...


FOUNDED BY EDWARD CAVE IN 1731 UNDER HIS FAMOUS PSEUDONYM \"SYLVANUS URBAN,\" THIS\'S WIDELY CONSIDEREDTHE MOST IMPORTANT, AUTHORITATIVE PERIODICAL OF ITS AGE.THE GENTLEMAN\'S MAGAZINEIS RENOWNED AS A PRIMARY SOURCE INTELLIGENCE SOURCE CONCERNING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.IT INFLUENCED COLONIAL-AMERICA PUBLISHER (E.G., BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\'S 18TH-CENTURY GENERAL MAGAZINE WAS CHIEFLY PATTERNED AFTER GENTLEMAN\'S MAGAZINE). THIS \"NEWS-MONTHLY\" PUBLISHED ARTICLES CONCERNING HISTORY, SCIENCE, POLITICS, CURRENT EVENTS ETC, AS NOTED IN THIS ISSUE.
  • AS IT EVOLVED,THE GENTLEMAN\'S MAGAZINEREFLECTED ENGLAND\'S CONCERN OVER THE COLONIES (AMERICA)... AND DEVELOPING REVOLUTIONARY FORCES; INDEED, MANY OF THE PRIMARY REPORTS ON OCCURRENCES IN THE COLONIES DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (AND A RICH SOURCE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP) ARE CONTAINED W/IN THE MAGAZINE.

Regular features typically include...


Stock tables (commodities and financials), Meteorolgical tables;

Foreign Intelligence, including from (e.g., Scotland, Poland, East and West Indies, Ireland, Algeria or the like; etc.);

Historical chronicle;

Poetry and etc.;

Science and Medicine;

Review of New Publications;

Literary Intelligence;

Military News;

Weather;

Much more... including executions, births, deaths, adverts, book reviews, poetry, political essays, etc.



Details/Condition/Etc...


1808, March. *1st/1st* COMPLETE.Printed by John Nichols and Son, at Cicero\'s Head.True 1st (stabholes present). VERYFINE condition. Approx. 8\" x 5.\"Great content (as above and per scans).Illustrated w/vignette masthead; historiated initials; woodcut header; in-text illustration, tables, etc. 2 DATEDplates.Leather spine.THICK:90+pp.Thick, laid paper. Periodical is:square, straight, fresh, clean (no writing), bright, white, tight, etc.

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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

-- GEORGE WASHINGTON.


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