1790 – Gentleman’s Magazine | Benjamin Franklin & Bounty Mutiny, Slave Lake Map

The Gentleman’s Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interruption for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term ‘magazine’. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.

This first part of the 1790 edition includes a variety of important and interesting content

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gentleman’s Magazine: and historical Chronicle, vol 60, part 1
• Author(s): Sylvanus Urban [pseud. Edward Cave]
• Publisher: London: printed by John Nichols, for David Henry
• Edition: First Edition. 1790.
• Binding: Leather
• Format: 8vo, single volume
• Size:  8.75in X 5.75in (22cm x 14.5cm)
• Collation: iv, 579, [17]
• Illustrations: 18 plates, some folding
• Contents Include:
  • Reports from the governor of Barbados
  • Early account of the Mutiny of the Bounty
  • Description of Oliver Cromwell ancestors and interesting report on his scimitar
  • Growth and trade of cinnamon in West Indies
  • Dysentery in Jamaica
  • Map of ‘Slave Lake’
  • Dissenters and their conduct toward Charles I
  • Murder of Charles I
  • Death of Joseph II and rise of Leopold II in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Extensive reports on the French Revolution
    • Addresses and proceedings of the National Assembly
    • Speeches of Louis XVI of France
  • Biography of Benjamin Franklin with a letter on his death
  • Treaty between Prussia and the Ottoman Empire
  • On the death of Sadi Mahomet, Moroccan emperor
  • Article on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh
• Provenance: bookplate – King Lawrence Parker

Condition:

Near Fine. Binding is tight and secure with little to no rubbing on marbled covers. Pages and illustrations notably clean.

Why Collect This?

• Rare first edition of one of the most iconic 18^th-century periodicals
• Includes content on Benjamin Franklin
• Retains the often lacking maps and folding engravings

Item Number: #50052