The library: or, Moral and critical magazine.
London [England] : printed for R. Griffiths in the Strand, and C. Henderson under the Royal-Exchange,
[1761-MDCCLXII. [1762]
Imprint to v. 1 lacks date; year of publication from dates of issues.
Includes reviews of specific titles, general review articles, poetry selections, a monthly register of curent events including births, marriages, deaths, promotions; later issues include monthly table of stock prices. Issues include 14 essays entitled 'Life' and 3 essays entitled 'The philosopher'.
Note at end of May, 1762 issue indicates that the publication was not a financial success and, "a period is put to the publication of the Library".
Table of contents arranged in broad subject categories.
The 'society of gentlemen' includes Andrew Kippis and others.
With caption title and date at beginning of each monthly issue.
ESTC
NCBEL,
Crane & Kaye,
Times handlist,
Monthly issues unnumbered; chronological designation only.
No more published.
Possibly intended as an annual, volumes include irregular numbers of monthly issues.
Subjects in each vol.; vol. I includes categorical list of new books published each quarter.