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 * THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE **
 * HISTORY **

The Gentleman’s Magazine was originally founded in London, England, by Edward Cave Junior in 1731. It quickly took off and became one of the most well know publications of it's time. The magazine featured various articles pulled form many different contemporary publications as well as original works from authors of the time. Cave published the magazine under the pen name Sylvanus Urban, an anagram of the Latin words Urbanus for city and Sylva for forest or woodland. The Gentleman's Magazine was published at the end of each month, not the beginning as is common with most publications today. This offered readers a recap of the each months important topics. Cave's magazine had an extremely long run ending in the late 1800's, early 1900's. The exact date of the last publication is unknown and is argued to be anywhere from 1870 to 1919. The magazine is best know for it's historical accounts of the eighteenth and nineteenth century as well as its maps, engravings and wood cuts. The Gentleman's magazine was also sold as a bounded yearly volume ( This is what we have here at Gocuher). As a recap of the year, each book could be saved and used as a somewhat of an almanac. The yearly volume had an added index and preface as weel as age numbers. Creating an extremely well planned and easy to navigate volume. "A NEW PROJECTION OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE OF THE EARTH ON A PLANE"  "MIRTILUS AND CHLOE" ENGRAVING  "MAP OF THE SOUTH POLE"