[Rarebooks] fa: 1735 Gentleman's Magazine - MERLIN'S PROPHECY, PLAYHOUSES, POPERY, POETRY, &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Monthly Intelligencer. Vol. V. For the Year MDCCXXXV [1735]. London: Printed by Edward Cave, at St. John's Gate, [1735]. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the annual supplement, indices, volume title-page and preface. Thick 8vo in early/period half calf and marbled boards; iv, 308, 317-392, 449-778, [16] pp.; engraved frontispiece of "Merlin's Cave", in-text tables, woodcut decorations and illustrations.

An early volume of this mighty organ of the Age of Enlightenment, the first and longest-running "magazine" in the modern sense, which began publication in 1731.

Notable and/or curious features include:
	- POETRY by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Charlotte Brereton, Jane Hughes Brereton, Elizabeth Rowe, John Boyle ("To Mrs. Rowe, on the foregoing lines"), Elizabeth Carter, and others.
	- THEATRE: Mrs. [Elizabeth] Cooper Authress and Actress; Her Play of The Fair Libertine characteriz'd; The Man of Taste criticis'd; On the Regulation of the Theatre; Of Mr. Giffard's  Playhouse; Qualifications of an Actor; An Actor's Duty in expressing the Passions; The Folly of frequenting Operas; a Defence of Operas; On the Prostitution of the Theatre; etc.
	- MERLIN'S PROPHECY, with an Interpretation; An Account of Merlin and his Cave, etc.
	- Of the Growth of POPERY; the Lewdness of many Popes; Remarks on the Dissenters Lectures against Popery, etc.
	- Bastardy productive of great Men.
	- Statesmen generally Upstarts; Mamalukes, Janizaries, and some Kings the same.
	- Account of the Calve's-head Club.
	- South Sea Trade, the National Debt, the Sinking Fund, the Bank Contract, freedom of the press, popery, Jacobites, War of the Polish Succession, etc., etc.
	- Plus Debates and Proceedings in Parliament, monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Registers of Books published, Bills of Mortality, Obituaries, listings of Bankrupts and Promotions; newspaper extracts; and much, much more.
An imperfect copy, bound without the "Extraordinary Supplement" of poetry between the July and August numbers, and without pp. 309-316 of the June number; additionally, pp. 733-741 of the December number have been bound in at the end of the volume, after the index. Binding well rubbed and worn, hinges cracked with the front board held by the cords; intermittent toning to the leaves with occasional light spotting.