The Matrimonial Magazine, Or Monthly Anecdotes of Love and Marriage, for the Court, the City and the Country

Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ]+++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library P005997 Title page is engraved. Title page illustration represents Cupid and Psyche being drawn in a carriage to the temple of marriage, by little cherubs. Caption title and date at head of text in each monthly issue. Imprint lacks date; year of publication from volume designation. Plates show happy couples and romantic situations. Printed in two columns with continuous pagination. Includes esssays on romance and relationships, excerpts from romantic fiction, music, poetry, epigrams, summary of the increasing tensions in America, theatrical news and announcements, lists of new books, births, marriages, deaths and bankrupts, and current events in various parts of Europe, America, and the British Isles. With numbered essays: The dramatic inspector. London [England]: printed for the proprietors, and sold by W. Nicoll. No. 51 St. Paul's Church Yard, [1775- v., plates: ports.; 22 cm. (8°)