Uniform title | Pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository (London, England : Semiannual) |
Running title |
Pocket magazine |
Portion of title |
Elegant repository of useful and polite literature |
Frequency | Semiannual |
General note | Title pages and frontis. plates engraved, with volume number on frontis. |
General note | Title page includes note on subjects, with motto: "Multum in parvo" a bove printer's ornament, and "Utile et dulce" below. |
General note | Imprints include years of publication. |
General note | Monthly issues lack title pages. |
General note | Issue numbering consecutive from volume to volume. |
General note | Includes biographies, articles on well-known places, interesting inventions, with foreign and London news for the month, criminal trials of interest, births, marriages, deaths, preferments, bankrupts, theater news, and a poetry section. Volumes include bills of mortality and directions for plates. |
General note | Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library. |
References |
NCBEL, II:1310 |
References |
Times handlist, p. 47 |
References |
Crane & Kaye, 724 |
References |
Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 128 |
References |
English Short Title Catalog, P6473. |
Special numbering | Volumes lack chronological designation. |
Special numbering | First volume begins in August instead of July. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
Indexes |
Classified index in each volume: subjects, poetry titles, government news, theaters. |
Title history note | Collects monthly issues of: The Pocket magazine; or, Elegant repository of useful and polite literature. |
Genre/form | Periodicals England 18th century. |