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SYLVANUS URBAN, pseudonym
The Gentleman's Magazine
London: D[avid] Henry and R[ichard] Cave, October 1756 and John Nichols, March 1788. 2 issues only, 8vo., woodcut view of St. John's Gate on both titles, 3 engraved plates (old stab marks at inner margins), uniform brown buckram.
The poem, "The Game of cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor's School", on p. 489 of the earlier issue draws a parallel with the course of life in which finally "Death tips the wicket, and the game is done". A letter on the probable etymology of "cricket" from the word "Creag" is included on pp. 189-90 of the later issue. The pseudonym, "Sylvanus Urban", adopted by the magazine's first editor and publisher Edward Cave, was retained after his death in 1754. (2)
The Gentleman's Magazine
London: D[avid] Henry and R[ichard] Cave, October 1756 and John Nichols, March 1788. 2 issues only, 8vo., woodcut view of St. John's Gate on both titles, 3 engraved plates (old stab marks at inner margins), uniform brown buckram.
The poem, "The Game of cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor's School", on p. 489 of the earlier issue draws a parallel with the course of life in which finally "Death tips the wicket, and the game is done". A letter on the probable etymology of "cricket" from the word "Creag" is included on pp. 189-90 of the later issue. The pseudonym, "Sylvanus Urban", adopted by the magazine's first editor and publisher Edward Cave, was retained after his death in 1754. (2)
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