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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Saddle stitch. Zustand: Fair. Beschriftungen / Markierungen; Leichte Risse.

Zustand: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke.

8vo, pp. [393]-448; some brown stains in the lowers margins throughout; somewhat dog-eared, other-wise in good condition; uncut in the original blue printed wrappers (spine worn, small piece torn from the lower corner of the back wrapper, affecting a few words on either side). An extraordinary survival in printed wrappers: a special number of the Gentleman's Magazine, containing seventeen poems submitted for what must have been the first series of open poetry competitions in Britain. The poems submitted for the competition are all unsigned, but on the verso of the title is a poem entitled, On the Dignity of Divine Poetry, addressed to the Rev. Dr. Broome by John Hulse, of Hulm's Chapel in Cheshire, with a note: 'The ingenious clergyman, who contributes this suitable introduction to the following poems, is not a competitor for any of the prizes'. As Cave's biographer in ODNB says: 'Valuable publicity (and copy) for the columns was achieved by poetry competitions, eight in all, throughout the 1730s, and better magazine contributors were often engaged as editorial assistants as a result. The uneven quality of this verse often exposed the magazine to censure from those indifferent to the realities of running a contributory mass circulation miscellany'. It is not known at what date Cave began to issue his ground-breaking magazine in printed wrappers. The first bibliographical study of the early years of the Gentleman's Magazine was undertaken by William B. Todd, and published in Vol. 18 (1965) of Studies in Bibliography. In the course of his research, which concentrated on the years 1731-1754, Todd visited a great many libraries, and examined some 175 sets of the magazine, both partial and complete. Todd was well aware that from a very early date numbers were issued in printed wrappers, but details proved extremely elusive: 'The only copy I have seen in wrappers is the number for June 1752 at the Boston Public Library'. The front wrapper of this number, some eight years earlier than that, bears Cave's familiar woodcut device of St. John's Gate but not the same block as was used for the title page. Below is a list of the four prizes available: (a) the sum of £50, 'offer'd by a gentleman', for the best poem; (b) the sum of £50, 'offer'd by a gentlewoman', for 'the second in merit'; (c) a third prize of a five-year run of the magazine, 'large paper'; (d) a fourth prize of a similar run, 'small paper'. The inside wrappers and the back wrapper contain detailed descriptions of other Cave publications, and an advertisement of 'chrystalline shivery salt'.