The Gentlemans Magazine Library Manners And Customs

Author : George Laurence Gomme A. C. Bickley
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ISBN 13 : 9781332560097
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine Library, 1883 written by George Laurence Gomme A. C. Bickley and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine Library, 1883: Being a Classified Collection of the Chief The present volume (as its successors will be) is something more than a mere volume of selections. It aims at reproducing from the old Gentleman's Magazine all that is really of value on the subject of which it treats - manners and customs. This, perhaps, is hardly the place to expatiate on the value and interest of the world-known journal we are now dealing with; and it is, moreover, not at all necessary. Everybody knows the Gentleman's Magazine - knows it and values it. The idea of printing selections from it was first suggested by Gibbon, the historian, in a letter dated from Lausanne, Feb. 24, 1792, and printed in the January number of 1794, pp. 5, 6. The paragraph is as follows: "lam tempted to embrace this opportunity of suggesting to you the ideas of a work which must be surely well received by the public, and would rather tend to benefit than to injure the proprietors of the Gentleman's Magazine. That voluminous series of more than threescore years now contains a great number of literary, historical, and miscellaneous articles of real value; they are at present buried in a heap of temporary rubbish; but if properly chosen and classed they might revive to great advantage in a new publication of moderate size." And again, in 1799 (Part ii., p. 754), a correspondent, V., suggests a similar undertaking. Dr. J. Walker, in 1809, first acted upon this hint, and issued four volumes, 8vo., of A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.