The gentleman's magazine: and Historical chronicle. Volume X. by URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]; JOHNSON, Samuel - 1740

1740 1st ed South Carolina Slavery Indians Gentleman's Magazine Samuel Johnson

The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.

From 1738 to 1746, Edward Cave published in occasional issues of The Gentleman's Magazine semi-fictionalized accounts of contemporary debates in the two Houses of Parliament under the title of "Debates in the Senate of Lilliput. The names of the speakers in the debates, other individuals mentioned, politicians and monarchs present and past, and most other countries and cities of Europe ("Degulia") and America ("Columbia") were thinly disguised under a variety of Swiftian pseudonyms. This was because they were using the characters and culture from Jonathan Swift's book, "Gulliver's Travels". The disguised names, and the pretense that the accounts were really translations of speeches by Lilliputian politicians, were a reaction to an Act of Parliament forbidding the publication of accounts of its debates. Cave employed several notable writers on this series: William Guthrie (June 1738 – November 1740), Samuel Johnson (November 1740 – February 1743), and John Hawkesworth (February 1743 – December 1746).

This 1740 publication includes a variety of important and interesting topics including:

· Parliament Debates

· Essays on Epitaphs

· Indians

· South Carolina Slave Insurrection

· Commentary on the War of Austrian Succession

· Spanish Towns, Castles and trade

· Countries Currency including Ireland, Scotland, and Portugal

· Naval battles

· And many more!!!

This edition also includes a large fold out map of the 'Atlantic Western Ocean,' and numerous in text illustrations!

Item number: #7639

Price: $750

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]; JOHNSON, Samuel

The gentleman's magazine: and Historical chronicle. Volume X.

London: printed for Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate. M.DCC.XL. [1740]. First Edition.

Details:

· Collation:

o 660, [16]

o 4 maps

· Language: English

· Binding: Leather; tight & secure

· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 14cm)

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