The attic miscellany

Boswell, James, 1745-1795 (Added Author). Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756-1756?-1811? (Added Author). Collins, Samuel, (Added Author). Barlow, Inigo. (Added Author). Bodleian Library (Added Author). Adam Matthew Digital. (Added Author).

Summary: Includes verse narratives, comment on manners and customs, satirical articles on clubs and social gatherings, excerpts from other publications of biography, conduct, history, epigrams, short fiction, a monthly diary of current events, and correspondence. With numbered essays: The Actor, and The Physio-magnetic mirror.

Record details

Physical Description: 3 v., plates : ports. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
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Computer data.
electronic resource
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Publisher: London : Printed for Bentley and Co., [1789-1791 [i.e. 1792]]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from caption. "Including the Correspondent's museum" Designation from vol. t.p. for collected issues. Imprints vary; v. 3 reads: printed by and for W. Locke, Red Lion Street, Holborn, 1791 [i.e. 1792] Plates include illustrations of verse, satiric drawings of fashionable characters, portraits of actors; drawn by Isaac Cruikshank and Samuel Collins; engraver: J. Barlow. Some Rambler essays were reprinted in the Attic Miscellany from no. 23-36, "to fill out the work"; the reprints were also issued separately with plates: "Attic edition of the Rambler ... will be available from the booksellers." Multi-User.
Citation/References Note:	NCBEL, II:1309 Ward, W.S. Index of serials, p. 10 Crane & Kaye, 33 Times handlist, p. 46 ESTC (RLIN), ESTCP3455
Numbering Peculiarities Note:	Volumes lack chronological designation. No. [1] of the monthly issues lacks designation; some monthly issues have chronological designations without a year date, others have numerical designation only. Publication apparently irregular in later months; no issue published for June 1792, with no gap in numbering.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction No. 1-9, 16-22 only. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2007] (Eighteenth century journals. I, Newspapers and periodicals 1693-1793, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Location of Originals/Duplicates Note:	Bodleian Library
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Cumulative Index/Finding Aids Note:	Index issued in last monthly issue of each volume.
Linking Entry Complexity Note:	Discontinued and absorbed by a competitor: The Bon-Ton magazine, to which subscribers were referred.