| Other author/creator | Wheble, John, 1746-1820, bookseller. |
| Other author/creator | Bigg, George, printer. |
| Other author/creator | [Cox, E.], printer. |
| Other author/creator | Bew, John, -1793 bookseller. |
| Variant title |
St. James's magazine |
| Portion of title |
Memoirs of our own times |
| Caption title |
St. James's magazine; for ... |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| General note | Title from wrapper of no. II (March, 1774); monthly issues also published with title pages and caption titles. |
| General note | Title for collected volumes of each year (Identical to the wrapper title) appear in the first issue of that year, in lieu of the issue title page. |
| General note | Caption titles include issue date; caption and title repeated as ruuning title. |
| General note | Imprint from title page for vol. I; imprints for monthly title pages vary. |
| General note | From May-Dec. 1774 issue imprint reads: London: Printed by G. Bigg and E. Cox; and sold by J. Bew, no. 28, Pater-noster-row, and by all the booksellers in town and country. |
| General note | Wrapper title and monthly title page imprints lack dates; wrappers include addresses of printer and bookseller; years of publication from volume title page. |
| General note | Monthly title pages include table of contents and list of plates. |
| General note | Wrappers include issue number and date, description of plates, acknowledgement of correspondents, and table of contents; back wrapper includes advertisements. |
| General note | Frontis. plate for vol. I. includes publisher statements: Published as the act directs, by I. Wheble, March 1. 1774. |
| General note | Crown with "III" below and "G R" on either side appears on wrappers, above caption, and on volume title page; wrapper also includes figures of royal guards on either side of title. |
| General note | Includes essays and anecdotes on such topics as the theater, morals, aesthetics, travel, biography, literature; with correspondence, poetry, and current events including births, marriages, deaths, promotions, and a list of current members of Parliament. Some issues include numbered essays: The man of fancy; The picture; The English Marmontel. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1305 |
| References |
NCBEL, II:1285 |
| References |
Crane & Kaye, 804 |
| References |
English Short Title Catalog, P6359. |
| Special numbering | Volumes intended to collect a year of monthly issues; volume for 1776 incomplete; no more known to have been published. |
| Supplement note | 1774 volume includes supplement with a history of the British stage. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |
| Other title | Man of fancy. No. 1-6. |
| Other title | Picture. No. 1-8. |
| Other title | English Marmontel. No. 1-3. |
