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The American magazine and monthly chronicle for the British colonies [electronic resource] : ... By a society of gentlmen

Additional Titles:
American magazine, Monthly chronicle for the British colonies, American magazine, or monthly chronicle, and American magazine for ...
Published:
Philadelphia [Pa.] : printed and sold for William Bradford, at the Corner House in Front and Market-Streets, [1758]
Physical Description:
volumes(2 unnumbered pages, 656, 6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations,tables, diagram ; 8⁰
Additional Creators:
Bradford, William, 1719-1791 and Smith, William, 1727-1803
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Series:
Dates of Publication and/or Sequential Designation:
Volume I. Containing from October 1757 to October 1758 inclusive.
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Publication Frequency:
Annual
Note:
Editor: William Smith.
Imprint lacks date; year of publication from dates of issues.
Monthly issues include individual title pages, with vignette, and brief caption title at head of first page of text with issue date.
Monthly issues have contents on title page verso.
Vignette shows a Native American in the forest, offered a book, tomahawk, and trade goods, by well-dressed colonists. Below cut: "Praevalebit aequior."
Individual issue title pages include note: To be continued.
Price in brackets on issue title pages: One shilling Pennsylvania currency each month.
Includes general essays on philosophy, natural history, mathematics, sermons, correspondence, history of the Indian wars in North America, poetry and foreign affairs news. With numbered essays: The Pratler; The Planter; The Anti-Gallican; The Hermit.
With continuous pagination and register.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
Available online to authorized PSU users as part of the General reference series of Eighteenth century collections online.
Special Numbering:
Issues unnumbered.
No more published.
Supplement Note:
With 'Monthly chronicle' (pp. 649-652) and postscript at end of volume dated: Nov. 14th 1758.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Index Note:
Subject index at end.
Reviewed/Cited In:
Evans, C. American bibliography, 8071
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present, 1133
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6498.
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