1751 Scots Magazine : Volume XIII : Scottish Interest

The Scots Magazine (1751)

Printed by W Sands, A Murray, and J Cochrane, Edinburgh, 1751. First Edition. Volume XIII. Bound volume for the year 1751 covering issues January 1751 to December 1751 plus Appendix

CONDITION
A good copy. The leather binding is good with some signs of age. Front endpaper missing. Title page with age-toning. Pencil to inside rear board. Pages good throughout and free from foxing and stains. Overall good.

The Scots Magazine is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It claims to be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, although there have been several gaps in its publication history. It has reported on events from the defeat of the Jacobites through the Napoleonic wars to the Second World War and on to the creation of the new Scottish Parliament.

The Scots Magazine was originally published in January 1739. It was intended as a rival to the London-based Gentleman's Magazine, in order that "our countrymen might have the production of every month sooner, cheaper and better collected than before". Its first issue, dated Monday 9 February 1739, cost 6d. and appeared in a blue cover with the motto Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. Popular through the 18th century, it innovated a register of births, marriages and deaths, which other journals soon copied. From 1759 until 1765 it was edited by William Smellie.

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