THE CHEAP MAGAZINE
Categories: Verse
Conduct Religion FictionYear: 1814
Publisher: George Miller and Son
Pagination: iv, [1]-620
Dimensions: 17 x 10 cm
City: Haddington
Document Type: Book
Edition: Vol. II
Language: English
Preface: [iii]-iv 'PREFACE.'
Index: [617]-620 'INDEX.'
Printer: G. Miller and Son, Haddington
Binding: Brown, half calf. Front and back covers marbled board. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(line) | 'CHEAP | MAGAZINE' (ink) | (line) | 2 | line) | '1814' (ink) | (line) | (line)'.
Edges: Trimmed
Marginalia: Front paste-down endpaper [book-plate] 'South Parish Library. | No. 65.'
Notes:Title-page 'THE | CHEAP MAGAZINE, | A WORK OF HUMBLE IMPORT ; | YET | CLAIMING THE ATTENTION OF ALL RANKS, | As having for its object the | Prevention of Crimes, | And being calculated to ensure the | PEACE, COMFORT, AND SECURITY OF SOCIETY ; | By alluring the Young and Thoughtless | TO A TASTE FOR READING SUBJECTS OF REAL UTILITY, | Having a tendency to counteract the | BANEFUL INFLUENCE OF DEPRAVED HABITS ; | Promote the interests of Religion, Virtue, and Humanity ; | ENCOURAGE A SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY, ECONOMY, AND FRUGALITY ; | AND | Dispel the shades of Ignorance, Prejudice, and Error, particularly | from among the lower orders of mankind : | CONSISTING OF | ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS AND SELECT EXTRACTS, | Invariably adapted to answer some of the above important purposes, | and brought forward in such a pleasing manner, as likely to | excite and arrest the attention of the juvenile mind.'