The
Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in
London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran
uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was
the first to use the term magazine for a periodical.
The
original complete title was The Gentleman's Magazine:
or, Trader's monthly intelligencer. Cave's innovation
was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on
any topic the educated public might be interested in,
from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried
original content from a stable of regular contributors,
as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other
periodicals and books. Cave, who edited The Gentleman's
Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the
first to use the term magazine (meaning "storehouse")
for a periodical. Contributions to the magazine
frequently took the form of letters, addressed to "Mr.
Urban". The iconic illustration of St. John's Gate on
the front of each issue (occasionally updated over the
years) depicted Cave's home, in effect, the magazine's
"office".
Further
information is available at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentleman%27s_Magazine
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The Gentlemen's
Magazine
By Sylvanus Urban, Gent.(1850) (pdf) |