M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine

[Mark Kohut]

Fascinating!........Maybe none of the libraries Google is working have 1764!
   
  Perseverance pays off....
   
  you should post this 'close-if-no-cigar' at the M & D wiki, imho.

David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
      .hmmessage P  {  margin:0px;  padding:0px  }  body.hmmessage  {  FONT-SIZE: 10pt;  FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma  }    Well, I managed to find the 1765 Gentleman's Magazine on Google Books (linked below), but as best as I can tell, Google hasn't scanned the 1764 volume (XXXIV). (If anyone here has a copy, please lemme know.)
 
Google did, however, scan "A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine" (1811) which contains a letter by Dr. Bevis (!) from the 1764 volume (!!) that was written in response to some glub query of astro-historical yore (not unlike my own questions). Bevis' letter opens with this funny disclaimer: "I am so little versed in matters of antiquity, that I do not know to whom you could have applied less qualified to give you satisfaction than myself."
 
This collection also contains such wonderfully entitled articles as: "An Hour-glass found in a Coffin"; "On the Custom of Swearing in Discourse"'; and "A Saint whose Emblems are naked Boys in a Tub."
 
Here are links for the curious.
 
  1765: http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0sDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam#PRA1-PA544,M1
   
  1811 Collection: http://books.google.com/books?id=xj8lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=curiou+intitle:Gentleman%27s+intitle:Magazine#PPR10,M1
   
  Other volumes: 
  http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam&lr=&id=_UEdXMCpZ6wC&sa=N&start=430

 
    
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  From: dpayne1912 at hotmail.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:57:36 +0000

      .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P  {padding:0px;}  .ExternalClass EC_body.hmmessage  {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}      I'm clearly reading the wrong book, ATD being all the rage these days! But here's a real stumper (for me at least) from M&D, p. 438: “According to this,” Dixon soothingly, as if ‘were a Fan, waving a Page, enclos’d with the letter, clipped from the Gentlemen’s Magazine of the December previous, “there were, it seems, ten, competing for the job,- Betts, Bevis, Short...so on. Any of those names light a Match?“
   
  I'm trying to locate a copy of the page that Dixon is waving about. Three questions:
  1. This scene occurs in late February, 1765, right? 
  2. Is this supposed to the Gentleman's Magazine? 
  3. Has anyone ever located a copy of the 1764 edition of the Gentleman’s Magazine or the specific page that Dixon references? 
   
   

  
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