Tuesday 7 January 2014

The Gentleman’s Magazine on Google Books

Long runs of the Gentleman’s Magazine are available on Google Books and (it seems) the Internet Archive, but the indexing on both of these sites is worse than useless. There is an otherwise excellent index on Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker (here), but it provides volume numbers only. And if you want to know what the weather was like in June 1742, or what was published in April 1756, you will need dates, not volume numbers. One day, if I can be bothered, I may even add links to individual book lists for each month. But, for now, the following will have to do.

vol. 1 (1731): here
vol. 2 (1732): here
vol. 3 (1733): here
vol. 4 (1734): here
vol. 5 (1735): here
vol. 6 (1736): here
vol. 7 (1737): here
vol. 8 (1738): here
vol. 9 (1739): here
vol. 10 (1740): here

vol. 11 (1741): here
vol. 12 (1742): here
vol. 13 (1743): here
vol. 14 (1744): here
vol. 15 (1745): here
vol. 16 (1746): here
vol. 17 (1747): here
vol. 18 (1748): here
vol. 19 (1749): here
vol. 20 (1750): here

vol. 21 (1751): here
vol. 22 (1752): here
vol. 23 (1753): here
vol. 24 (1754): here
vol. 25 (1755): here
vol. 26 (1756): here
vol. 27 (1757): here
vol. 28 (1758): here
vol. 29 (1759): here
vol. 30 (1760): here

vol. 31 (1761): here
vol. 32 (1762): here
vol. 33 (1763): here
vol. 34 (1764): here
vol. 35 (1765): here
vol. 36 (1766): here
vol. 37 (1767): here
vol. 38 (1768): here
vol. 39 (1769): here
vol. 40 (1770): here

vol. 41 (1771): here
vol. 42 (1772): here
vol. 43 (1773): here
vol. 44 (1774): here
vol. 45 (1775): here
vol. 46 (1776): here
vol. 47 (1777): here
vol. 48 (1778): here
vol. 49 (1779): here
vol. 50 (1780): here

vol. 51 (1781): here
vol. 52 (1782): here
vol. 53 (1783): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 54 (1784): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 55 (1785): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 56 (1786): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 57 (1787): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 58 (1788): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 59 (1789): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here
vol. 60 (1790): Pt.1 here and Pt.2 here


[UPDATE 10 Jan 2016: added links for 1771–1790]

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What a hero you are!! Thanks so much for doing this, soooooo helpful. Best ALISON