The Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment
Publisher: Printed for A. Hamilton Junior
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 792
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 4 vols. in this collection, in 8vo. pp. [1-5], 6-690, [7]</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">. Half calf. The volume is accompanied by a supplement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The monthly magazine </span><span class="marclinepart" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">began with [v. 1] in January 1769 and ceased with v. 28 in December 1796. The issues for 1769 and 1770 contain 32 early contributions by Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), three of them posthumous, itemized chronologically by Michael F. Suarez (“<span style="background:rgb(255,255,255);">What Thomas Knew: Chatterton and the Business of Getting into Print</span>.” Angelaki, 1 (1996), 2, pp. 83–94). After being dismissed by Horace Walpole, and the return of several manuscript submissions, which had required prodding, Chatterton found his first London publisher in the new Town and Country Magazine, whose issues of 1769-70 contain some forty contributions, including ‘Elinoure and Juga’, the only ‘Rowley’ poem published in Chatterton’s lifetime, and seven early ‘Ossianic translations’ of allegedly Saxon, Welsh, and Manx poems into prose. D. S. Taylor (The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton. A Bicentenary Edition (Oxford, 1971), vol ii, p. 984) remarks that ‘Town and Country Magazine published more of Chatterton’s material than any other journal.’</span><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:16.4067px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_3607824" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:rgb(75,100,255);background:rgb(255,255,255);">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</span></a></span>