Item #2331144 The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868. Manners and Customs. George Laurence Gomme.

The Gentleman's Magazine Library: Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868. Manners and Customs.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Hard Cover. Fair / No Jacket. Item #2331144

No publisher date. Possible former library copy. Spine toned, loss to spine head and spine base, hinges starting.

xiv, 302 pp. Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine from 1731 to 1868. The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term magazine (from the French magazine, meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with The Gentleman's Magazine.

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