Gents Mag 1732 title page

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1732   volume 2
	Gentleman's Magazine vol.2, 1732 book feature (partial): text
	Title page
title
	THE / Gentleman's Magazine, / OR, / MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER, / For the YEAR 1732. / CONTAINING / [contents] / WITH / A TABLE OF CONTENTS to each Month. / ALSO / ALPHABETICAL INDEXES of the NAMES of / Persons mention'd and Things treated throughout the Whole. / VOL. II. / Collected chiefly from the Public Papers by SILVANUS URBAN. / Prodesse & delectare. [device, hand of flowers] E Pluribus Unum.
imprint
	LONDON, Printed and Sold at ST JOHN'S GATE; by F. JEFFERIES in Ludgate-street, and by most Booksellers in Town and Country. Debates in Parliament are mentioned in the contents from this issue; this became a problem later.
	Month title page
imprint
	LONDON: Printed by HENRY and CAVE, at St JOHN'S GATE. How is this the 5th edition, again? The reverse of the month title page has a proper list of contents.
	Monthly Intelligencer The Monthly intelligencer is treated as a separate section of the magazine:- This arrangement is continued when it becomes the Historical Chronicle, but eventually the section is just another regular part of the magazine without a special header.
	Indexing
indexing
	Indexing is improved: an index subjects later expanded, in its title at least, to an index on debates and proceedings in Parliament, essays, dissertations, and historical 'passages'; and an index to person names. Later there were more indexes; see 1735 for examples of the pattern that continued for many decades.
	Register of Books
index, books
	A list of books published is a regular monthly part of the magazine, for example the first and last of four pages in May:- Notice the comments about the rival London Magazine, with its saucy alternative title, on the last page. December has two pages, with directions to the binder at the foot which explain some of the odd pagination found in the monthly issues. In time the register of books becomes a regular section of the monthly magazine, not to be removed to the end, and there is an index of books for the volume.
	Pagination
pagination
	The pagination of this volume is distinctly odd. A close look demonstrates some of the publisher's evolving thoughts on the plan of the magazine, and also demonstrates how the binder can get it all wrong when assembling the 12 parts and front and end matter into a single volume. The pages listed below are in the order found in the example of this volume at the Armitt Library; other examples will not have the same mistakes by the binder, or by a later re-binder. Some pages might have been lost, for instance, why are there no Register of Books pp.1-6?
	year's volume		Volume title page, with a poem on the reverse
	January		Month title page = p.549; contents on reverse. Text pp.551-590; Monthly Intelligencer p.583 onwards Notice that p.569 is actually headed '56', just a typesetter's error. No list/register of books.
	February		Month title page = p.591; contents on reverse. Text pp.593-638; Monthly Intelligencer p.626 onwards. Lists of books published pp.635-636 and 638.
	March		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.639-684; Monthly Intelligencer p.673 onwards. List of books published pp.683-684.
	April		Month title page not numbered; NO contents on reverse. Text pp.685-730; Monthly Intelligencer p.719 onwards; p.730 is contents. List of books published p.729.
	May		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.779-780; list of books on p.780 Text pp.731-778; Monthly Intelligencer p.771 onwards. Register of Books for May, pp.7-10.
	June		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.813-814. Text pp.781-812, 815-830; Monthly Intelligencer p.822 onwards. Register of Books, pp.13-14, 11-12.
	July		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.831-880; Monthly Intelligencer p.873 onwards. Register of Books pp.15-18.
	August		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.881-882, 887-912, 883-886, 913-934; Monthly Intelligencer p.925 onwards. No Register of Books.
	September		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.935-984; Monthly Intelligencer p.975 onwards. Register of Books for August and September, pp.19-22.
	October		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.985-1034; Monthly Intelligencer p.1028 onwards. Register of Books pp.23-26.
	November		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.1035-1086; Monthly Intelligencer p.1078 onwards. Register of Books pp.27-28.
	December		Month title page not numbered; contents on reverse. Text pp.1088-1127; Monthly Intelligencer p.1123 onwards.
	indexes		No page numbers, could be pp.1128-1134? Register of Books for December pp.29-30 (No list of plates.)
	Why this volume has pp.549-1127 rather than starting at 1, is not explained. The previous year's volume has pp.1-684, so the numbering is not a continuation from last year.

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