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Gentleman's Magazine vols.
1,2 and 3, 1857
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volume numbering
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New series, new volume numbering, which gets off to a bad
start. Part 1 is numbered volume 1 and volume 2 on two
separate volume title pages! part 2 is volume 3, and from
thence the numbering is regular - for a while.
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THE / GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE / AND / HISTORICAL REVIEW. / BY
SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. / MDCCCLVII. / JANUARY TO JUNE
INCLUSIVE. / BEING VOLUME I. OF A NEW SERIES. / AND THE
TWO-HUNDRED-AND-SECOND SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT. /
[illustration, St John's Gate] / ST. JOHN'S GATE,
CLERKENWELL, / THE RESIDENCE OF CAVE, THE FOUNDER OF THE
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, 1713. / (IN ITS PRESENT STATE, JUNE,
1856.)
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LONDON: / JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. / 1857.
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volume numbering
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There two errors on this title page. The simple error is
that the start date of the magazine is given as 1713 instead
of 1731. The more interesting error is the claim to be the
202nd since commencement. You have to count very carefully.
1731 to 1783 is 53 years of one volume per year: total 53
volumes. 1784 to 1833 is 50 years of two volumes per year,
although only 50 volume numbers, multiply by 2: total 100
physical volumes. 1834 to 1856 is 23 years of two volumes
per year, numbered separately: total 46 volumes. The total
number of physical volumes up to 1856 is 199. 1857 volume 1
is the 200th since commencement. But never mind.
Someone decided to put the first error right, changing 1713 to 1731. At the same time introducing a new error; the volume number is now given as 2!  |
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Month title page For February, which shows the pattern of what follows.  |
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Indexes Indexes are rethought: index to essays, which now includes the index to books; index to names; and a new concept, an index to topography, listed by place. This pattern continues.  INDEX / TO ESSAYS, DISSERTATIONS, HISTORICAL PASSAGES, / AND BOOKS REVIEWED. / [three stars] The Principal Memoirs in the OBITUARY are distinctly entered in the Index. / ...  INDEX TO NAMES, . Including Promotions, Preferments, and Deaths. - The longer articles of Deaths are entered in the preceding Index of Essays, &c. / ...  TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX. As before the list of plates comes and goes. |
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