The new novelist's magazine; or, Entertaining library : of pleasing and instructive histories, ... romances, and other ... exemplary little novels

Publication/Creation:: London [England] : Printed for Harrison and Co. No. 18. Paternoster Row, 1786-1787
Resource Type:: Journal, Newspaper or Serial

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Full Title:: The new novelist's magazine; or, Entertaining library : of pleasing and instructive histories, ... romances, and other ... exemplary little novels

Related/Included Titles:: Eighteenth century collections online.
Variant Titles:: Runing title, verso: New novelist's magazine
New novelist's magazine

Genre:: Periodicals
Subjects:: English fiction--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800
Picaresque literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800
European literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800
Romance-language literature--18th century--Periodicals--Early works to 1800

Publication Dates:: Vol. I. (1786.)-vol. II. (1787.)
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 2 volumes, plates ; 22 cm (8⁰)
General Note:: Title pages engraved, with vignette of woman reading a story to her family.
Imprints include year of publication.
Main title repeated as caption at head of first page of text.
Printed in two columns.
From 'Advertisement' on 2nd preliminary leaf: "The original Novelist's magazine, ...[which] continues to be published in weekly numbers, confessedly gave rise to the present undertaking, ... the monthly or New novelist's magazine."
Includes short novels, novellas and stories, some translated from French or Italian, some original; with illustrative plates.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
Local Note:: General Libraries have the corresponding microform set, The Eighteenth Century, classed MICFILM 1272. The reel number for this title can be found in the online record when you click the link.
Reproduction Note:: Electronic reproduction.
Citation/Reference Note:: NCBEL, II:1307
Crane & Kaye, 615
Times handlist, p. 46
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCP6051.