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1877 volumes 240 and 241 |
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Gentleman's Magazine vols.
240 and 241, 1877
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This is the start of a new series, two volumes each year,
the numbering reverting to continue an original count: this
part is volume 240. Each volume is for 6 months; January to
June, July to December, and has its own pagination. The
original printers device and mottoes are reinstated.
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THE / Gentleman's Magazine / VOLUME CCXL. / JANUARY
TO JUNE 1877 / PRODESSE & DELECTARE [device, hand of
flowers] E PLURIBUS UNUM / Edited by SYLVANUS URBAN,
Gentleman
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London / CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY / 1877 / All
rights reserved
Fiction and poetry now seem to dominate the contents. Notice the colophon on part 1 p.760:- Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London |
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Volume numbering |
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volume numbering
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The new series of the magazine that was started in 1857
began with problematic volume numbering: 1857 part 1 was
numbered volume 1 but also volume 2, by mistake; 1857 part 2
was volume 3, continuing the error to 1865 volumes 18 and
19. From 1866 volumes are numbered in a new series beginning
volume 1. The 1857 volume 1,2 is claimed to be the 202nd
since commencement, though it is really the 200th; the error
in count continued for succeeding volumes. 1857 to 1876
inclusive is 20 years of two volumes per year: total 40
volumes. This first volume of 1877, numbered volume 240, is
truly the 240th since the beginning.
The correct numbering continued for 7 volumes to 1880 part 1 as volume 246; then 1880 part 2, which is the 247th since commencement, is numbered volume 249 with a note on the reverse of the title page:- (The seven volumes preceeding the present are incorrectly numbered: The present volume is correctly described as the Two hundred and Forty-ninth from the commencement of the Magazine in 1731.) Beware that the Carlisle Library volume 249 has 247 on the spine, and the title page amended in pencil from 249 to 247. The corrected, though incorrect, numbering is continued to 1907 part 1 as volume 302. |
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Indexing |
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index, volume
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Each volume has a 'contents' in alphabetical order ie a
short index. This includes a list of the contents of
theTable Talk section. There is no other index except a list
of the plates illustrating the stories.
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