Gents Mag 1731 title page
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1731 volume 1 |
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Gentleman's Magazine vol.1,
1731
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Title page The first issue of the Gentleman's Magazine is January 1731. The year's magazines were bound together, with a title page for the volume, the example studied has two volume title pages.  |
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title
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THE / Gentleman's Magazine: / OR, TRADER'S / Monthly
Intelligencer. / VOLUME the FIRST, for the YEAR 1731. /
CONTAINING / [contents] / Together with / [A]n ALPHABETICAL
INDEX of the NAMES / mentioned throughout the WHOLE, for the
easier finding / any Occurrence, Death, Marriage, Birth,
Promotion, Accident, Adventure, / Date, or other
Circumstance relating to them. / Collected chiefly from
the Public Papers, by SYLVANUS URBAN. / [E]
PLURIBUS [device, hand of flowers] UNUM.
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LONDON: / Printed, and Sold at St John's Gate,
by F. Jefferies in Ludgate- / street,
and most Booksellers in Town and Country. / MDCCXXXII.
The volume contents can be read as a statement of aims for the contents of the new magazine. the Trader's part of the title is dropped almost immediately. The volume title page above for 1731 was set in 1732. The second, as found in the binding seen, title page:-  |
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THE / Gentleman's Magazine: / OR Monthly
Intelligencer. / For the YEAR 1731. / CONTAINING /
[contents] / With proper INDEXES. / By SYLVANUS
URBANE, Gent. / VOL. I. / Prodesse & delectare.
[device] E Pluribus Unum.
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LONDON: / Printed, and sold at St John's Gate,
by F. Jefferies in Ludgate- / street,
and most Booksellers.
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editor
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The proprietor and editor is:-
Sylvanus Urban a pseudonym for Edward Cave, printer and publisher. |
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motto printer's device |
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This version of the title page has the twin mottoes and
printer's device which were used by the magazine for many
years after. The motto:-
E PLURIBUS UNUM 'One out of many' became more familiar from 1782 as the motto in the arms of the United States. |
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volume numbering pagination |
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Volume numbering and pagination are straightforward: one
year one volume, pages from 1 onwards. The front matter of
title page and prefaces, which come at the end of the year,
are not counted, nor are the end matter of indexes and list
of plates. From clues in other issues it might be (unsafely)
assumed that the title page is p.i and so on, in a usual
manner. (1733 has 2 sheets, 4 pages, of front matter, and
the fourth is numbered '(iv)'.)
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Introduction |
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introduction
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The reverse of the volume title page has an introduction
to the new magazine:-
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Month title page |
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month title page
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The monthly title page, first issue January 1731
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title
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The Gentleman's Magazine: ... / St JOHN'S GATE. /
[illustration, St John's Gate] / Or, MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER.
/ For JANUARY, 1731. / CONTAINING, / ... / By SYLVANUS
URBAN, Gent. / The FIFTH EDITION.
How is this the 5th edition? |
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imprint
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LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR, and sold at St John's
Gate: By F. Jefferies, in Ludgate-street;
all other Booksellers; and by Persons who serve Gentlemen
with the News-papers: Of whom may be had Compleat
Sets, or any single Number.
A few are printed on ROYAL PAPER, large Margin, for the CURIOUS. Notice the list of newspapers either side of the illustration of St John's Gate, where Edward Cave lived and worked. |
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Contents |
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contents
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The month title page has a brief list of contents,
describing the outline plan of the magazine. The reverse of
the month title page, page 2, has a more detailed contents,
which provides a typical specimen of what the magazine
included:-
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Indexing |
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index, names
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The volume has one index, to names
 As advertised on the title page. |
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