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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. Volume LVIII [58]. For the Year MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]. Part the First. London: Printed by John Nichols for David Henry, 1788. Six monthly issues (January-June), plus an index. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4], 567, [25] pp.; with 14 copper-engraved plates, four of which are folding (complete).

Among the notable and/or curious features and articles:
	- Original Description of the PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT [with] An Account of the Views and Sections published by Mr. [Richard] Dalton (with a folding plate).
	- Interesting Intelligence and News from AMERICA, the West- and East-Indies, etc. ("The Indian War, so long threatened, has at last taken place on the back settlements of the Province of Georgia…"; "Rhode island and Providence plantations have passed an act to prevent the slave trade…"; "The Mississippi, one of the largest rivers on this Continent, in April last, suddenly overflowed its banks, by which the towns of Mobile and Pensacola were in imminent danger…"; etc.).
	- Genuine speech of his Excellency BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esq., to the President of the late Continental Convention, immediately before signing the proposed Constitution.
	- Dr. Lindsay on Dr. Franklin's Doctrine of Water-spouts (with an engraving).
	- An Original Letter from DR. BENJAMIN RUSH of Philadelphia, on the Constitution of the United States.
	- OBITUARIES of considerable Persons, including: Prince Charles Edward Casimir Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"); Lieut.-General William Tryon, the last colonial governor of New York; naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; poet and publisher Salomon Gessner; memoirist and serial adulteress the Viscountess Fane [i.e. Vane], immortalized in Tobias Smollett's novel Peregrine Pickle ("Her life afforded a melancholy instance of the miseries inseparable from a misapplication of superior talents and elegant accomplishments..."); the "much lamented George Hesse, esq.," who, "having dined with Lord Gage, whence he went to the club at Philmore's," arrived home at "about two o'clock in the morning,… went into his library,… charged lightly one of his own travelling pistols, and, putting it into his mouth, discharged it…"etc. etc.
	- PLATES of: the Market Pace at Dover; the Observatory of Trinity College; the House in Edinburgh where Queen Mary was confined; the Parsonage at Bexley, Kent (2 plates); Remains of Longtown Castle,  Monmouthshire; portraits, seals, coins, fossils, etc.
	- Authentic Account of ALEXANDER SELKIRK; Selkirk's Way of Life in the Island of Juan Fernandes; The true Author of Robinson Crusoe.
	- Cautions hinted to the Committee on the SLAVE TRADE.
	- Thoughts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, considered chiefly in a prudential and political View.
	- Report on the Slave Trade from the Committee of Pennsylvania Assembly (the complete text).
	- Expediency of a Reformation in the Treatment of Slaves (with an engraving of the Seal of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade).
	- Contest in FRANCE between the King and the Parliament; An Incendiary French Paper…lately seized at a private printing press in Paris (and other articles related to the gathering Revolutionary storm).
	- A Vindication of the conduct of the English forces employed in the late war… against Nabob Tippoo Sultaun.
	- Manifesto of the Grand Seignior after his Declaration of War.
	- Remarks on Johnson's Dictionary, with Hints for Improvements.
	- A lengthy review of Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson… by Hester Lynch Piozzi.
	- The Character of Dr. Johnson, as drawn by himself.
	- Selection from Mr. Gibbon's learned and entertaining Notes to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Volumes of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
	- Further Remarks on the Mangel Wurzel by Dr. Lettsom.
	- On Suicide, and a future State.
	- A Sunday School for Chimney Sweepers recommended.
	- "To the Ladies, on the Success of Mr. Davison's revived Palmyrene Soap" (a poem).
	- Egg laid by a Cock Macaw.
	- Plus parliamentary debates, poetry, monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.