1769 1st UNIVERSAL MAG 60p VG Fldg Plates BRITISH MILITARY IN BOSTON Coal-Mining
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1769 1st UNIVERSAL MAG 60p VG Fldg Plates BRITISH MILITARY IN BOSTON Coal-Mining:
$27.99
The Universal Magazine.
1st/1st. 1769.
Full issue...w/plates, INCLUDING a large folding plate of 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius; another, the frontis of Brittania.
Both WITH ACCOMPANYING ARTICLES.
GreatContent. Including... Articles as above; and, a long article -- shortly pre-dating what would be the Boston Massacre -- reporting on the Mass. Legislature lobbying to get the British Military out of the City of Boston.
Illustrated w/2 splendid plates -- PLUS full-page stock table, musical score, etc.
Authentic: stab holes present. July, 1769 (complete).
Thick: 56pp + 2 plates (Nice cond.; details below). Thick, rag laid paper. LONDON.
W/social, historical meteorological and financial info; literature; science and exploration; political essays; Commonwealth news; etc.
Includes: Several articles on philosophy and literature, and also the arts; reports from the Parliament and House of Commons; on the \"History of England\"; Foreign and Domestic News, including ncluding executions at Newgate, births, deaths, War Promotions, much more.
Nice Cond.!
The Universal Magazine
of
Knowledge and Pleasure:
[Containing
News, Letters, Debates, Poetry, Musick, Biography, History, Geography, Voyages, Criticism, Translations, Philosophy, Mathematicks[sic], Husbandry, Gardening, Cookery, Chemistry, Mechanicks[sic], Trade, Navigation Architecture
and Other
Arts and Sciences,
which may render it Instructive and Entertaining
to
Gentry, Merchants, Farmers, and Tradesmen: to which occasionally will be added An Impartial Account of Books in several Languages and of the Store of Learning in Europe Also of the Stage, New Operas Plays and Oratorios.
Published Monthly according to Act of Parliament, by John Hinton, at the King’s Arms in Newgate Street, London.]
July, 1769.
AnAside.... The \"S\" that Looks Like an \"F\"...
In the old Anglo-Saxon alphabet, from which the English alphabet is derived, the small \"s: was written in two forms: one is the \"long s\" that resembles our modern letter \"f\" (but note, it does not have the center bar), which is used when the \"s\" is the first letter of theword,or the first of a pair of \"s\'s\"; the other is the familiar shaped \"s\" which appears at the end of words. This usage is cognate to the two forms of \"s\" in the Greek alphabet. English printer John Bell first phased out the use of the long \"s\" in his books at the end of the 1700\'s, and by 1810 or so the new practice was universal in printed material. Interestingly, though, the use of the old long \"s\" continued in handwritten documents for many years, through the 1870\'s.
About the publication...
DETAILS/CONDITION...
July, 1769. 1st/1st. FULL ISSUE: COMPLETE. PerhapsVery Good. [Published Monthly according to Act of Parliament, by John Hinton, at the King’s Arms in Newgate Street, London].Approx. 8\" x 5\". THICK: approx. 60pp w/2 plates... includes one large folding one. Great content.Illustrated as noted and pictured. Leather spine. Stab holes present.Thick, laid paper. Nicecondition. Overall toning and some scattered foxing and browning, as shown. A few leaves w/a light edegwear, closed tear rear leaf; prior owner name excised from top of second page, etc. Periodical is:square, straight, clean (no writing or marks), fresh, etc.
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1769 1st UNIVERSAL MAG 60p VG Fldg Plates BRITISH MILITARY IN BOSTON Coal-Mining:
$27.99