The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure was a periodical published in London in the period 1747–1814 by John Hinton and W. Bent. This bound volume presenting 30 contemporary engravings featured in the magazine represents its interests in Architecture, Travels, Voyages, History, Geography and Mechanics.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Contemporary landscape format album in good condition. Marbled boards with brown calf to spine, a little bumped to corners, age worn, a little faded. Spine in 5 compartments, head and hinges chipped. Endpapers age toned front and rear. Front pastedown is signed ‘Mr Armstrong’ in contemporary sloping cursive. Front free endpaper is delicately sketched on in light pencil. Front and rear flyleaves clean. Contains pasted and bound in 33 impressive engravings printed for J Hinton, Newgate St, London on heavy paper for the Universal Magazine. All clean, unmarked in very good condition. They include:
A Perspective View of Fort St George, a Plan of the Battle of Weissenfels, an Exact Plan of the Battle of Minden, a Plan of St Philip’s Castle, Minorca, a Perspective View of the Theatre at Berlin, a Plan of Havre de Grace, a Plan of Dunkirk, The Nature and Cause of Echos Explained, a Plan of the Battle of Fellinghausen, a Plan and Elevation of Farm Houses, Marshall Saxes New Method of Fortification, Coins in King James I Reign, The Torments Inflicted by the Dutch on the English, The Condition of the English in the Dungeon, a Plan of Madras and St George, a Plan of the Town’s Citadel and Port Dunkirk, a Plan of the Battle of Suptitz, a Section and Perspective View of the Royal Vault under King Henry, a document signed by the Colonels of King Charles Stewart 1648. A Plan of the Battle of Tonhausen, Dresden on the Elbe, a Perspective View of the Inside of Westminster Hall, a Perspective View of Leixlip and the Salmon Leap, a Perspective View of Westminster Abbey, a Perspective View of the Inside of St Peter’s Westminster, a Perspective View of the Inside of The Temple Church, the Town House at Amsterdam and a Perspective View of Bradenstoke Priory.
