1788 1ed AMERICA Ben Franklin on US Constitution England SLAVERY Quakers Africa

1788 1^ed AMERICA Ben Franklin on US Constitution England SLAVERY Quakers Africa

The Gentleman’s Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt 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 1786 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:

• Reports from America
  • Emperor of Morocco signing treaty with America
  • Benjamin Franklin’s speech on the United States Constitution
  • Loyalist petitions over British armies’ storehouses
  • French edicts favoring America over England
• Benjamin Franklin observations on water-spouts
• Cultivation of Indigo in Africa
• On slave-trade:
  • Reports of committees seeking abolishment
  • State of slavery in England
  • Need for reforming slave trade
  • American Quakers banning slavery

Item number: #21572

Price: $750

URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]

The Gentleman’s Magazine: for 1788, part 1

London: printed by John Nichols, for David Henry, 1788. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • [4], 567, [25]
  • 14 plates
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather
  • Ex-library
  • Spine repair
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (21.5cm x 14cm)

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