The Oxford magazine: or, University museum. Calculated for general instruction and amusement, on a plan entirely new. Embellished with copper-plates, satirical, political, and scientifical, from original designs.
Ormston, William,Dr,active 1768-1769,former owner.NLS
Waldie, John,1781-1862,former owner.NLS
London : printed for the authors, and sold by S[amuel]. Bladon ... and J. Coote ..., London; Mess. [T.] Fletcher and [Francis] Hodson, at Cambridge; Mr. Smith, at Dublin; and Mr. [Christopher] Etherington, at York,
M DCC LXVIII.-M DCC LXIX. [1768-1769]
Title and imprint from added volume title page.
Individual issues have caption titles and monthly designations at head of first page of text.
Printed in two columns.
Includes essays, poetry, articles on grammar and politics (including news of John Wilkes), fiction, illustrated satires on manners and society, miscellaneous tidbits from newspapers, American news, engraved depictions of great houses, marriages, deaths and bankrupts. Includes numbered essays: "The censor" and "The police" in some issues; the first issue of the latter discusses the magistracy of Sir John Fielding.
NCBEL,
Times handlist,
Volumes lack chronological designation.
With occasional supplements.
Each volume indexed.
Inscription on front pastedown: One of Dr. William Ormston's Books; signature on title page: William Ormston - 1768; 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown: John Waldie, Hendersyde.
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780
Wilkes, John, 1727-1797
Literature, English,
Satire, English,